100 Days Since Newtown: More Than 3K Gun Deaths in the US

Thursday marks 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.

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

Among the dead are two Santa Cruz police officers gunned down by a suspect in a sexual assault investigation. Sgt. Loran "Butch" Baker and Detective Elizabeth Butler were killed Feb. 26. The man they were investigating, Jeremy Goulet, 35, was fatally shot by officers who responded to help their fallen comrades.

The fourth gun death in Santa Cruz was . The kick boxer and father was fatally shot outside a downtown bar in early February.

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

• One in Campbell, the city's first homicide in six years.
• Three in Watsonville.
• Four in East Palo Alto.
• One each in Burlingame, Marin City, Gilroy and Napa.
• Nine in San Jose.
• Two in Santa Rosa.
• Three men killed during a marijuana sale gone bad in Forestville, in Sonoma County.
• 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.

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.