The numbers are in, and they paint a clear picture.
There were 17 mass killings recorded in 2025 across the United States — the lowest total since 2006, according to the Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University database.
That represents a 24% decline from 2024 and continues a sharp downward trend that began last year.
For gun owners and groups like Palmetto Gun Rights that consistently defend the Second Amendment without apology, this is not a surprise. It is vindication.
The Facts Behind the Decline
The Leftist-run database defines a mass killing as an incident in which four or more people are killed, excluding the perpetrator.
In 2025, 17 such events occurred nationwide, a stark contrast to the elevated counts seen during and immediately after the pandemic years.
This year’s figure stands as the clearest evidence yet that spikes in violence stem from a lack of enforcement rather than increases in gun ownership or increases in citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights without government barriers.
The broader picture is unmistakable.
Overall homicide rates are declining, gun-death trends are decreasing from pandemic highs, and no school shootings met the mass-shooting threshold in 2025, much to the chagrin of the Gun Control Lobby that exploits such tragedies to push their gun confiscation agenda.
The Inescapable Correlation: More Freedom, Fewer Mass Shootings
Consider the timeline:
- Over the past two decades, states have systematically removed barriers to lawful concealed carry, including South Carolina in 2024 after the relentless efforts of pro-gun patriots and Palmetto Gun Rights.
- Record numbers of Americans, including first-time buyers from across the political spectrum, have exercised their right to keep and bear arms.
- States with greater Second Amendment freedoms are seeing declines in violence while cities and states with restrictive, anti-gun policies continue to struggle.
The result? The lowest mass-shooting count in twenty years.
Contrary to leftwing media rhetoric, areas that have respected and expanded Second Amendment rights are not experiencing surges in violence.
In fact, they are witnessing the opposite.
Cities like Chicago and New York, and states like California and Colorado that doubled down on anti-gun policies continue to grapple with persistent crime, because criminals, by definition, do not obey laws.
The Gun-Control Narrative Collapses Under Its Own Weight
The Bloomberg-funded Gun Control Lobby has screamed for years that anything short of outright gun confiscation will lead to an increase in mass shootings and gun violence.
As gun owners know, that lie could not be further from the truth.
The redcoats at Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Confiscation packed hundreds of committee hearings and legislative balconies over the last two decades while utilizing funding dwarfing that of pro-gun groups like the National Association for Gun Rights.
And the same misleading behavior was evident in South Carolina during the drawn-out fight for Constitutional Carry.
But gun owners and Palmetto Gun Rights persisted, and South Carolinians saw their rights restored in 2024.
Now, 28 states have implemented Constitutional Carry by eliminating government permits and restrictions on gun owners exercising their right to self-defense.
(Fun fact: Permitless Concealed Carry was always legal in Bernie Sanders’ Vermont, bringing the total to 29 Constitutional Carry States)
The most heavily armed civilian population in recorded history now boasts more than 400 million privately owned firearms, and yet, violent crime is on the decline according to the same radical, leftwing media that pushed lies suggesting the opposite would happen.
The data now confirm what Palmetto Gun Rights and the National Association for Gun Rights has maintained without compromise.
The right to keep and bear arms is not the problem — it is part of the solution.
Palmetto Gun Rights: No Retreat, No Surrender
In an era when some organizations trade principles for access and “bipartisan” photo ops, Palmetto Gun Rights remains the uncompromising voice of the Second Amendment in South Carolina.
We do not negotiate away your rights.
We do not celebrate incremental losses disguised as victories.
We fight and win because anything less betrays the Constitution and the Americans who depend on it for their safety.
Between passing Constitutional Carry, blocking “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation schemes, and holding elected officials accountable, PGR is the tip of the spear.
When the data prove our case yet again, we do not gloat.
We double down and continue mobilizing pro-gun patriots because the fight for the full restoration of the Second Amendment is far from over.
