Four people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a Montana bar, prompting a lockdown in a neighborhood several miles away as authorities searched a wooded area for a suspect in the case.

The shooting brought the number of mass murders so far this year in the US to nine, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a non-partisan resource which defines such cases as killings in which four or more victims are killed.

All those mass murders were shootings, and four have occurred in a 30-day period beginning 2 July. It was the US’s second mass murder since Monday, when a man attacked a New York City skyscraper housing the National Football League’s headquarters and shot four people dead before dying by suicide.

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    6 days ago

    I’m not sure which is worse, that my first thought was “Only nine?” or that my second one was “Four counts as mass?”

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    Let’s ban more guns so that we’re helpless when Trump sends the gestapo for us.

    Right, my fellow Democrats? (I vote Democrat but take issue with this.)