The horror in California has happened in 46 other states.
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Just last week, Robert Dear was accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic.
Renewed calls for more gun control surfaced in Louisville and across the nation in the hours following the shooting.
Content Preview This content is exclusive for Optimum, Time Warner, Comcast, customers with access to News 12. But the frequency with which mass shootings have been reported this year have led to perceptions that this one, particularly shocking, type of violence may be experiencing a surge. “The lack of compassion, lack of guilt and empathy, an embrace of violence as a method to handle world problems, and a generalized world hatred push those people towards guns to carry out their desire for human destruction”. The data considers any shooting with four or more victims a “mass shooting”.
Fourteen people were killed in the shooting at a social service facility and another 21 were injured, some of them critically wounded.
The analysis used Reddit’s Mass Shooting Tracker, which defines a “mass shooting” as any event where four or more people are shot.
But in its quest to further understand the phenomenon of mass shootings, Mother Jones uses the strict standards set forth by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Numerous shooting deaths involved domestic incidents, some were suspected gang activity and others were people caught in the crossfire. The shootings have taken place in 47 separate states.
“We heard something like explosives – big sounds first, then a few seconds…we heard the gunshots”, said an employee of the public health department.
There was at least one shooting every month and in three cases, two in a single day. “A lot of these people who are getting guns who are mentally unstable, who should not be getting guns and this is a gap in our laws that we feel needs to be filled”.
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“But this much we know: As a country we clearly aren’t doing enough, and our elected officials’ conversations about solutions usually end in political spin”. “We need to pass legislation but it will never happen there’s not the will to do it. We have Republicans who are beholden to the NRA in control of Congress so it’s, so to speak, a dead issue”. Women account for 50 percent of the victims in mass shootings, compared with only 15 percent of overall gun homicides, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, based on media reports from 2009 through July.
