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Country endured 28 mass killings – a total of 140 victims – amid uptick in gun violence and calls by some for stricter laws. Police officers walking down street,
The United States saw a record of 28 mass killings in the first half of 2023, The Associated Press has reported, as policymakers struggle to curb gun violence across the country.
The AP analysis, published on Friday, said 140 victims were killed during that period. All but one of the mass killings – incidents in which four or more people are slain not including the perpetrator – involved firearms.
“What a ghastly milestone,” Brent Leatherwood, whose three children were in class at a private Christian school in Nashville in March when a former student fatally shot six people, told the AP. “You never think your family would be a part of a statistic like that.”
The reality is, active shooter events per year have now tripled, gun violence continues to climb, and gangs aren’t to blame. .
That might help, but only a tiny bit.
A huge percent of shootings AREN’T mental health related, planned, or related to drugs and gangs. Kids getting shot, spouses getting shot, or shootings that happen because of simple disagreements have become a real problem.
This is exclusively an American phenomenon, so whatever you guys need to sort out needed to happen decades ago.