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.”
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.
The second largest set of wholey preventable deaths in America.
What is the largest, murdered by police?
Well its a near tie between cars and guns.
“No one could have prevented this.”
“We’ve done nothing and we’re all out of ideas”
Are mass killings and mass shootings counted differently? Because I saw some news about there being like 17 mass shootings on 4th of July alone, and I thought US averages more than 1 mass shooting per day.
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.
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I went to a movie theater the other day and felt nervous that there could be a shooter.
Then I felt silly cause its not like I was in elementary school.
