The new date is Jul 4, 2022.
Six months into this year, mass shootings and gun deaths in the United States rival the record-breaking figures of 2021, as a wave of gun violence that began at the beginning of the epidemic continues to rage.
There is a memorial in front of Robb Elementary School.
There were at least four injuries or deaths from the start of this year to Sunday, compared to 327 mass shootings over the same period in the previous two years.
The Gun Violence Archive has tracked mass shootings for the last four years, and this year is on track to be the highest in the last three.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, 10,072 people have died due to firearms in the US so far in 2022, a seven-year high.
In the first six months of this year, U.S. dealers sold about 8.8 million guns, a 16% decrease from the same period in the previous year and a 21% decrease from the previous year.
In the first half of this year, firearm sales are up 27% compared to the same period last year, according to figures from Small Arms Analytics.
Two dozen people were brought to hospitals after a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.
The United States experienced a spike in gun violence after Covid-19 entered the country. The gun violence rate jumped in the first year of the epidemic, according to one study. Homicides and other types of violent crime increased in the nation's largest cities in 2020. The economic and psychological stresses caused by the coronaviruses have been blamed for the sudden change. Gun industry experts think that firearm sales jumped in early 2020 because of the Pandemic and remained high through a summer of tense protests and a dramatic presidential race.
Some research shows that places with more guns tend to have more gun violence. Increased sales could mean more firearms are owned by people who aren't familiar with the risks. Gun control opponents think the rise in violence has led to a jump in firearm sales, not the other way around, often pointing to statistics showing many crimes are committed with illegal guns that were originally sold years earlier.
A wave of high-profile mass shootings this year, including a supermarket shooting that killed 10 in Buffalo and a school shooting that killed 21 in Texas, led to the passage of one of the most significant federal gun laws in decades. The bipartisan law was signed by President Joe Biden and increases background checks for people under the age of 20. Democrats want the package to ban assault weapons, mandate background checks, and raise the age to buy a semiautomatic rifle.
All Rights Reserved © 2024
