Nineteen-year-old Nikolas Cruz, the man arrested as the shooter, is currently in custody charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder after opening fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Cruz was expelled for disciplinary reasons from the high school he is accused of attacking.
The United States and the rest of the world are now responding in a way in which we've all become accustomed to.
Facebook profile images change in remembrance of those lost, politicians use the latest slaughtering as a weapon to bash their opponents and then we all return to normal life.
Following the latest mass killing President Donald Trump said safety in schools would be prioritised.
But how?
The United States is a country infatuated with firearms.
So much so that, rightly or wrongly, it is every American's constitutional right to bear arms.
And that right is protected and respected, seemingly more than an individual's right not to lose their life in a barrage of bullets.
The United States has 88 guns for every 100 citizens.
According to the Small Arms Survey , the US boasts 5 per cent of the world's population, but is home to roughly 35-50 per cent of the world's civilian-owned guns.
These are eye-watering statistics that offer a perfect insight into the sickness within the culture of the world's only super-power - an epidemic that sees young, vulnerable people lose their lives in surroundings in which they should feel safe.
A little over five years ago 20 children were massacred in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Fast forward half a decade and 17 young people have had their lives cut short in the most despicable way.
But it seems the day after every one of the atrocities in the United States is Groundhog Day.
It's the same mourning process, but no action is taken on a sickness that continues to spread.
