Then news broke that multiple attackers opened fire at a center for disabled adults in San Bernardino. “Like a cancer”, says Dr. O’Toole, “this crime is moving and growing in insidious ways, and is resistant to ‘treatment'”. But according to The Washington Post, some data show that there have been more mass shootings than calendar days this year.
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A mass shooting in California on Wednesday, which killed 14 and wounded 17 others, was the 355th to take place in America this year alone.
A day before the San Bernardino attack, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said legally armed citizens can discourage terrorists.
“We have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them”, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement after the incident.
On Oct. 1, nine people were killed and nine more injured in a campus shooting at Umpqua Community College in southern Oregon. “And until we can agree on that, even though there’s a broader moral imperative to stop it, it’s hard to find common ground for deciding how to deal with it”.
And while media coverage has increased awareness, he argues that it hasn’t resulted in public apathy. “We move more to action if we actually feel more closely each of the individual lives that were lost”. “But that doesn’t mean that we can’t stem the tide of gun violence, because everyday gun violence is incredibly preventable”.
Esty called on the House to create a Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention, a proposal she unveiled last month with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Democrats.
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Following the shooting, there was an outpouring of grief and solidarity with the victims online, with many – including prominent Christian activist Shane Claibourne – criticising United States gun laws for being too lenient.
