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At a glance: Major shootings in the United States

People react at the site of a mass shooting the day after at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 4, 2019. [Reuters]

Two mass shootings within 13 hours of each other left 20 people dead in Texas and killed nine people in Ohio, carnage that shocked a country that has become grimly accustomed to mass shootings and heightened concerns about domestic terrorism.

Below are some of the bloodiest and most notable U.S. mass shootings in recent decades, ranked by death toll. This is not a complete list of all major U.S. mass shootings:

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