Nearly 150 people have died in mass shootings nationwide this year, including 11 that were killed in Monterey Park, California, and seven that were killed in Half Moon Bay, California.
recorded 690, resulting in 706 deaths. There were another 610 mass shootings in 2020—a major uptick from previous years. The GVA recorded 417 in 2019, 336 in 2018, 349 in 2017 and 383 in 2018.Following a string of high-profile mass shootings last spring—including a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and a grocery store shooting in Buffalo, New York—Congress in June passed its firstin decades.
to garner enough support in the Senate, even though it passed the then-Democratic-controlled House in July—after it faced a roadblock from Senate Republicans, who argued the bill would remove weapons from Americans who use them for self-defense.The National Rifle Association—one of the primary opponents to sweeping gun control legislation—also opposed the proposed assault weapons ban,
last year the bill’s proponents are “selling a lie” and that the bill fails to “limit a bad actor’s access to virtually any sort of firearm he wanted.”Several recent studies have found increased gun control measures reduce the rate of gun violence.
found the states with the highest gun death rates were Mississippi , Louisiana and Wyoming , while the states with the lowest rates were Hawaii and Massachusetts .
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