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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.”
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Characterizing it as mass killings is kinda underselling it, despite the shocking numbers. For reference, we had an average of one mass shooting per day as of March 9. Here’s an up to date list of mass shootings this year. I couldn’t be bothered to count them out but it wouldn’t surprise me if we’re still maintaining an average of over one per day. Dark times.
Looking at mass shooting numbers is kind of pointless, since it’s so heavily propagandized. Probably makes more sense to look at overall murder rate. It spiked in 2020, because I guess something happened that year. Started to drop again in 2022, but it’s still higher than 2019.
Replying to my own comment because the editor is being wack. I did the math, the US has had 379 mass shootings this year. A ratio of a little over 2:1.
