100 Days Since Newtown: Some 3,000 Gun Deaths in the US

Thursday marked 100 days since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT.

Despite public outcry for stricter gun laws—particularly limits on assault weapons—more than 2,200 people have been killed by guns in the United States since Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot twenty children and six educators, according to a tally by the Huffington Post.

To get the full effect of 100 days of gun violence, click the link above to Huffington Post (or here) and then the "Next" button for a graphic representation.

A similar project by Slate and Twitter feed @GunDeaths puts the total at 3,053 as of 9 a.m. Thursday. Slate too has a disturbing graphic of the accelerating total.

In total, 355 people in California have died of gunshot wounds since the Sandy Hook mass murder. In addition to the Forestville slayings, many of the killings have been in the San Francisco Bay Area:

• One in Campbell, the city's first homicide in six years.
• Four in East Palo Alto.
• One each in Burlingame, Marin City, Gilroy and Napa.
• Nine in San Jose.
• Four in Santa Cruz, including two police officers gunned down by a suspect in a sexual assault case.
• Three in Watsonville.
• Two in Santa Rosa.
• Three in drug deal gone bad in Forestville.
• Eight in San Francisco.

The Sandy Hook mass murder reignited the national debate on gun control, though some question if it's waning in the months since the school shooting.

In Marin County, officials at the Jan. 15 gun buy back and $36,000 of the $43,000 that was allocated for the buyback was gone in about 90 minutes.

This month, Marin community members clashed during a gun control Q&A with Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian and San Rafael Mayor Gary Phillips.

Berberian voiced his support for putting in place “reasonable common-sense regulations” while observing the constitutional right to bear arms at the Marin Coalition luncheon. Some of the two dozen people in attendance got feisty about the issue, interrupting one another and arguing.

The Senate is expected to vote month on a legislative package that includes provisions to expand background checks on gun purchases, creates new penalties for straw purchases and includes funding to bolster school safety, according to USA Today. The legislation does not ban assault weapons.