As I have previously written Americans love guns more than life itself. There really is nothing I can write or say but as this is a topic that really ought to be on everyone’s mind.
What a great country we are where mass shootings are so frequent that the Virginia shooting in a Walmart was on the last page of the front section of the LA Times. It followed the shooting in a Colorado shooting just a few days earlier.
The deadliest mass shooting in the country so far this year was the massacre in which 19 children and two teachers were killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. It happened 10 days after 10 people were shot and killed in a supermarket in Buffalo.
The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group that tracks gun violence using police reports, news coverage and other public sources, defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people were killed or injured.
The Gun Violence Archive has counted at least 606 mass shootings so far this year.
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