Graphic detail | Daily chart
Guns are the things most likely to kill young people in America
The school shooting in Uvalde is the latest addition to a deadly pattern
ON MAY 24TH an 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, walked into an elementary school in Uvalde, a town in south-west Texas, and shot dead at least 21 people, including 19 children. Mr Ramos was himself killed, reportedly by police. His motive remains unclear. It is the latest in a spate of mass shootings in America, and the toll is the biggest at a school since a gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.
More from Graphic detail
Six charts help to explain 2024’s freakish temperatures
Could the end of El Niño bring some relief?
The world’s most, and least, walkable cities
Those who want to ditch their car might want to avoid North America
How countries rank by military spending
Our analysis shows how NATO allies match up against their rivals