Recent mass shootings Commentaries

It’s Not Over
Embed from Getty Images In three days, June 10 to June 12, the country endured 6 mass shootings: Yonkers, New York; Detroit, Michigan; White Center, Washington; Savannah, Georgia; Austin, Texas; and Chicago, Illinois, accounting for 6 dead and 38 injured. Year to date, Chicago has had 16 mass shootings. The non-profit research group, Gun Violence Archive, defines a mass shooting...
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June 18, 2021
Enough!
150 – that’s the number of mass shootings since January 1, 2021. 148 – that’s the number of people killed (including shooters) in mass shootings since January 1, 2021. Embed from Getty Images Yesterday, in Kenosha Wisconsin, 3 were killed and 2 injured in the latest incident. Every week we hear of another mass shooting and another and another.  » Read...
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April 19, 2021
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