Twenty.

That’s the number of mass shootings in California this year, shootings that have left people injured and killed in numerous cities across the state.

That’s according to data from the Gun Violence Archive , an independent research and data collection organization that’s been around for over a decade. It comes as Americans are reeling from numerous incidents of gun violence in recent days, from a shooting at a Colorado high school that left two students injured and the suspect dead from self-inflicted injuries to the highly publicized fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk — both of which happened to occur on the same day.

What is considered a mass shooting? There’s no one definition

As the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service noted late last year, there is no “single, wide

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