Mark it down. That’s number 296 of the year; one more for the record books, one more statistic, and one more news broadcast. When’s happy hour and who’s buying?

Last Thursday, a 57-year-old Florida gunman opened fire on two men at a home in Inglis Florida before killing himself. This happened just hours after Chris Harper-Mercer opened fire on his English class at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., killing nine others and himself.

Umpqua Community College was the 294th mass shooting of 2015. The Florida man was the 296th–a milestone reached 46 days quicker than the 296th shooting last year when a 22-year-old-man in South Dakota shot and killed three others, wounded another and then killed himself.

In 2015 in the U.S., we’ve had 278 calendar days and, according to Mass Shootings Tracker, 296 mass shootings – an incident in which four or more people are shot with no cooling off period. That’s more than one shooting a day, which trounces 2013’s record of 364 and 2014’s of 337.

It feels perverse and wildly inappropriate to boil down murder into numbers, but you’d be surprised how many websites exist to do just that. According to the same Mass Shootings Tracker statistics, 338 people died and another 1,251 were wounded from gun violence in 2014 alone.

Last year, the U.S. hit the 296 mass shootings mark on November 22 when, according WDTN – a Dayton, Ohio local news broadcast station – one person was slain and three others were injured after a conflict went “too far,” Springfield resident was quoted saying.

If we stay on track, 2015 should pan out to be the worst year for mass shootings on record.

Search the Internet and you’ll find multiple articles stating these same facts and turning the unthinkable into a political discussion. I don’t know how we’ve turned murder and tragedy into statistics, but we have. And it’s remarkably easy.

During President Barack Obama’s impassioned speech after the Umpqua Community College massacre, he said, “The United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense gun-safety laws – even in the face of repeated mass killings.”

A day later, an article on Vox appeared which explained America’s unique relationship with guns. According to information that originally appeared on The Guardian, gun violence in the U.S. is overwhelmingly more prominent than the rest of the world.

According to the data, the U.S. has 29.7 homicides by firearm per one million people – a full 22 points higher than Switzerland, the next highest nation. It should be noted that Switzerland is famous for their unusually high number of gun owners, despite being landlocked in a continent with much lower gun ownership.

The next highest nation of homicides by firearm per one million is in Belgium at 6.8.

The article then moves to compare gun ownership in the U.S. with the rest of the world. Unsurprisingly, Americans own roughly 42 percent of the world’s private guns. The article mentions that Americans make up about 4.43 percent of the world’s population.

In the same speech, President Obama asked the media a favor. “Have news organizations tally up the number of Americans who’ve been killed through terrorist attacks in the last decade and the number of Americans who’ve been killed by gun violence, and post those side-by-side on your news reports.”

Hours after his speech, Vox, again, did just that. As it turns out, the numbers are so widely incomparable that the number of Americans killed by terrorist attacks doesn’t even register. According to the report, about 10,000 Americans have been killed by gun violence each year from 2001 to 2011 (the years in which they had data).

So, we have a problem. When the POTUS likens mass shootings to routine in a speech just hours after 10 people were killed at a college, we should know, as a nation, that something isn’t  right. Yet, America remains the only developed nation to have more mass shootings than calendar days.

I wonder what Charlton Heston would say today. After Columbine, he thought it necessary to speak in Denver, Colo. only days after 13 innocent people were killed.

“Still they say don’t come here. I guess what saddens me the most is how that suggests complicity,” Heston said. “It implies that you and I and 80 million honest gun owners are somehow to blame, that we don’t care.”

No, that’s not what they’re saying. That’s what I’m saying.

In 1996, Martin Bryant committed one of the worst mass shootings in the history of the world, killing 35 people and injuring 23 more in Tasmania. It wasn’t long after that when Australia introduced the National Firearms Agreement, which outlawed many forms of automatic weapons and a gun buyback system.

According to another article on Vox, which cites a 2011 Harvard study on Australian gun violence, the new legislation worked. Australia saw gun violence plummet.

As for proponents of gun ownership who spout mental illness as the number one reason for gun violence in America, just watch John Oliver’s special report on mental illness and gun violence on “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.” Frankly, I’m tired of this excuse and you should be too.

So, what exactly are we waiting for, America? We already s— all over the first amendment, isn’t it time the second amendment got some attention too?