October 26, 2023, early in the morning, the news was playing in the background as I prepared my morning coffee. The commentator said something along the lines of, “There have been nearly 600 mass shootings in the United States.” It was the day after the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, where 18 people were killed in a bowling alley and restaurant (Associated Press, 2023). My initial thought was that it was disturbing but not surprising. At that point, the United States had already experienced more high-profile shootings than most can remember. But there was something about hearing that there were nearly 600 mass shootings so far in 2023. I would later discover that, by that day in October, the exact number of mass shootings on that day in October was 565 (Alfonseca, 2023). There had only been 299 days in the year.