On October 1st, 2017, a gunman rained bullets from a hotel room in Las Vegas, killing 59 and injuring 546. It was the deadliest mass shooting in US’s recent history.

After every mass shooting, the narrative has become familiar, almost scripted. Politicians on both aisles pray for the victims and their families, while Democrats using this chance to draw attention to gun control, and Republicans denouncing Democrats for “politicizing a tragedy”

Let’s take that politicization argument at face value and say that it’s not okay to talk about gun control immediately following a mass shooting. When is it okay to talk about it then? Let’s say the following two criteria are used to determine whether it’s okay to talk about gun control or not:

No mass shooting on that date (4 or more shot or killed, not including the shooter) At least 3 days have passed since the previous mass shooting

Here’s what I came up with using 2017 mass shooting data from the US: