Likely worse than many 3rd world countries, too.

The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings
By Mark Berman, Lenny Bernstein, Dan Keating, Andrew Ba Tran and Artur Galocha

The spate of shooting attacks in communities such as Highland Park, Ill.; Uvalde, Tex.; and Buffalo has riveted attention on America’s staggering number of public mass killings. But the rising number of gun deaths in the United States extends beyond such high-profile episodes, emerging nearly every day inside homes, outside bars and on the streets of many cities, according to federal data.

The surge in gun violence comes as firearm purchases rose to record levels in 2020 and 2021, with more than 43 million guns estimated to have been purchased during that period, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal data on gun background checks. At the same time, the rate of gun deaths in those years hit the highest level since 1995, with more than 45,000 fatalities each year.

Guns are used in most suicides and are almost entirely responsible for an overall rise in homicides across the country from 2018 to 2021, according to ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/i ... -year-usa/

More guns = more gun deaths.

52 school buses travel to Ted Cruz’s home carrying school shooting victims’ items
Sarah Do Couto



A mile-long fleet of 52 yellow school buses travelled to Ted Cruz‘s Texas home on Thursday morning in the hopes of delivering the Republican senator a strong message about gun violence in the U.S.

The school buses contained 4,368 empty seats, the same number of children killed in firearm-related incidents since 2020, according to an examination of available Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mortality data.

Onboard the school buses were also several personal items belonging to school shooting victims.

BuzzFeed News reported that among the items were beat-up checkered Vans (worn by Gracie Muehlberger, 15, killed at her Santa Clarita, Calif., high school in 2019), a smiling stuffed animal (belonging to Chase Kowalski, 7, killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012) and a ...

https://globalnews.ca/news/8992889/ted- ... ims-items/

Newly released bodycam footage shows officers who were on the scene of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?cid=sm%3At ... trueAnthem

Did the July 4th Shooting at Highland Park Really Take Place?
Mike Weisser



Ready? Here comes the single craziest statement that anyone has ever made about gun violence in the United States.

And who made it? None other than Marjorie Taylor Greene who said in a podcast that the recent mass shootings in Highland Park on July 4th were ‘staged.’

Why was the shooting which killed seven people and injured dozens more nothing other than a phony event? Because it would galvanize public opinion and push Republicans to support gun control.

That’s what she said. She really did. Which is why we have the 1st Amendment in this country so that people like MJT can get away with saying such loony, hurtful things.

Except maybe they can’t, if it turns out that what they said really did result in someone else getting hurt. After all, the Constitution doesn’t protect someone who stands up and yells ‘fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?

It just so happens that one of ...

https://mikeweisser.medium.com/did-the- ... 2179566bce

To ensure the shooter has a backup weapon (or what could possibly go wrong)

North Carolina county to keep AR-15s in school safes in case of shooting
By Kate Feldman



A North Carolina sheriff is stocking district schools with AR-15s in response to the May school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

The six schools in Madison County will keep the semiautomatic weapons in a safe on campus for use by the school resource officer in an emergency, Sheriff Buddy Harwood told the Asheville Citizen-Times.

“We’ve also got breaching tools to go into those safes,” he told the newspaper. “We’ve got extra magazines with ammo in those safes.”

The Madison County SROs have been undergoing training over summer vacation and have a scheduled scenario meant to “replicate a high-impact incident requiring emergency response” next week.

Schools will also be outfitted with a ...

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

And why does the officer need this much firepower? He only has one target. He doesn't need to squeeze off 100 rounds in 40 seconds. What could go wrong here?

3 Dead in Shooting at Florida Narcotics Anonymous Meeting
Officers responded to a report that a man was shot and a woman was being held hostage Monday night in Edgewater, which is near Daytona Beach
By The Associated Press

A man went into a Narcotics Anonymous meeting in Florida and fatally shot his ex-girlfriend and her friend before turning the gun on himself, police said Tuesday.

Quinton Hunter brandished the gun shortly after entering the Monday night meeting, Edgewater police Chief Joseph Mahoney said during a news conference Tuesday. About 20 other participants safely fled and called police, he said.

Erica Hoffman and Ian Greenfield were already dead when officers arrived, the chief said. At some point after the shooting, Hunter began recording ...

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/3-d ... g/2831056/

That has to be the most chilling condemnation of the American public I've seen. Next think ya know, someone will be posing or filming something like this and catch a murder in real time. Maybe their own.

AP-NORC Poll: Most in U.S. want stricter gun laws
The Associated Press

Most U.S. adults think gun violence is increasing nationwide and want to see gun laws made stricter, according to a new poll that finds broad public support for a variety of gun restrictions, including many that are supported by majorities of Republicans and gun owners.

The poll by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also shows majorities of U.S. adults view both reducing gun violence and protecting gun ownership as important issues.

The poll was conducted between July 28 and Aug. 1, after a string of deadly mass shootings — from a New York grocery store to a school in Texas and a July 4 parade in Illinois — and a 2020 spike in gun killings that have increased attention on the issue of gun violence. Overall, 8 in 10 Americans perceive that gun violence is increasing around the country, and about two-thirds say it's increasing in their state, though less than half believe it's increasing in their community, the poll shows.

The question of how to prevent such violence has long divided politicians and many voters, making it difficult to change gun laws. In June, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court expanded gun rights, finding a constitutional right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.

Later that same month, President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan gun safety bill. The package, approved in the wake of shootings like the one that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, was both a measured compromise and the most significant bill addressing gun violence to be approved in Congress in decades — an indication of how intractable the issue has become.

The poll found 71% of Americans say gun laws should be stricter, including about half of Republicans, the vast majority of Democrats, and a majority of ...

https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/gun ... l-og65pr0x

3 dead, including suspected shooter, in Oregon grocery store attack
Shooting rounds from an AR-15-style rifle, the alleged gunman was believed to have begun the attack in the parking lot of a Safeway before continuing inside the store, Bend police said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/least-1-dead-1-injured-oregon-grocery-store-shooting-rcna45206

Heckler Applauded After Bluntly Shutting Ted Cruz Down Over His School Shooting Solution

Republican Senator Ted Cruz is one of the most pro-gun members of Congress, and the aftermath of the horrific Uvalde school shooting in his state back in May seems to have only deepened his dedication to the gun lobby.

And if the crowd at a recent panel discussion he joined is any indication, people in his state have had it with him.

During a recent talk at The Texas Tribune Festival, Cruz as always touted the usual Republican boilerplate about solving school shootings by ...

https://secondnexus.com/ted-cruz-heckle ... -shootings

To put it in perspective .....

Gun Violence Costs the U.S. $557 Billion a Year
MADISON MULLER

Gun violence that causes tens of thousands of U.S. deaths each year—far more than any other developed nation—is having a significant, negative impact on the country’s economy, Harvard Medical School researchers said.

Harvard Medical School researchers found that gun violence costs the U.S. some $557 billion annually, or 2.6% of gross domestic product, according to the peer-reviewed study published in the journal JAMA. The majority of that cost is attributed to ...

https://time.com/6217348/gun-violence-e ... -costs-us/