America reached the grim figure by Saturday the earliest in a year shootings have been recorded since at least. The rate of mass shootings in has consistently outpaced that of past years with an average of nearly two mass shootings a day. Nearly in US adults has had a family member killed by a gun including homicides and suicides according to a survey from KFF formerly known as the Kaiser Family Foundation. About the same proportion of adults have been personally threatened with a gun and about in adults has witnessed an injury from a shooting the survey found. This is the only country in the world where men who are having breaks with reality exorcise their demons through mass slaughter Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut who has made gun safety legislation central to his work following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting told earlier this year. But only in America are we so casual about access to weapons of mass destruction. Only in America do we fetishize violence so much that we end up with all the mass shootings. The political debate on gun control in America though is untethered from that data. And gun violence is still rising. Per the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the firearm homicide rate was . higher than it was in . Firearm suicide rates among people years old and older also increased by . from . to . And the percentage of firearm injuries rose from. . to the highest in more than five years. The US also reached and mass shootings more quickly this year than any other year since . One hundred shootings were recorded by March by May. In it took days nearly the entire year to hit mass shootings this year and in however the United States reached that marker in just seven months. The White House officials have been clear eyed about the political realities Democrats face with the current makeup of Congress where Republicans in control of the House of Representatives have rejected Bidens calls for an assault weapons ban. In the days after a school shooting in Uvalde Texas in May a mental health crisis line received a spike in messages that referenced grief guns and other firearmrelated terms. The study did not track callers locations but the Crisis Text Line a nonprofit organization offering free confidential crisis intervention serves people nationwide. But following passage of last years bipartisan gun safety law theres been little political momentum for more gunsafety legislation even as the rate ofmass shootings has picked up. In Australia less than two weeks after the federal government implemented a new new gun control act gun deaths dropped by almost half over a year. In South Africa gun deaths in the five years that followed the new gun legislation went into force in July 2013. A study found the governments governments with weaker gun laws have higher rates of gun deaths including homicides suicides and accidental killings according to the Everytown for Gun Safety a nonprofit focused on gun violence prevention. The U.S. has seen significant progress to reduce gunrelated deaths that have introduced new gun laws in the past two years. But in the next five years the overall firearm suicide rates that averaged over a five year period in South Africa will fall by more than half.
U.S. tops 400 mass shootings in 2023. United States tops 400 Mass Shootings by 2023, according to new report.
