So far this year 51 people have died in mass shootings, according to a database compiled by Mother Jones, a magazine. At this rate 2022 will be America’s second-deadliest year for such atrocities since at least 1982
seeps through all aspects of American life—even celebrations commemorating the country’s independence. Just as a Fourth of July parade began in a suburb of Chicago, a gunman opened fire from a rooftop. At least six people were killed and several more wounded. According to a database compiled byAbout halfway through 2022, 51 people have already died in mass shootings, defined by the magazine as those that cause at least three fatalities, excluding the perpetrator.
President Joe Biden once again expressed his dismay, saying he was “shocked by the senseless gun violence”. The carnage in Chicago comes little more than a month after a massacre in a school in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two teachers. That prompted America’s most significant gun reforms in three decades, though they remain woefully inadequate.
Yet progress remains piecemeal. On the day that the Senate approved the gun-control reform package, the Supreme Court struck down a New York state law that requires people in the state to obtain a licence if they want to carry a handgun outside their homes. There are also big differences in state laws. Illinois has the sixth-strictest gun-safety laws in America but is surrounded by states with much weaker ones. That makes it easier to traffic guns into the state..
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