we seemed to have gone years without a mass shooting until the house voted to reauthorize VAWA
I guess you just weren’t paying attention. Good luck finding a period of years without mass shootings:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
El paso 2019, to atl in 2021.
2020 says Hello.
No where near this year, but the list does add credence to the theory that the police let the victims bleed to death.