CNN reported Monday that as more communities experience deadly mass shootings, there is evidence that trauma from gun violence in the United States is collectively affecting the mental health of the country's population.

"Research published this year indicates that the negative mental health effects of mass shootings may extend beyond the survivors and the community directly affected by them to a much larger population," the report states. .

The Armed Violence Archive reports that mass shootings have escalated to a record pace in the United States, with at least 162 reported in 2023. It's been a week since the fatal mass shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky. , and more than a dozen accidents have occurred since then.