Gun laws: More than 700 people shot dead in the US since the Texas school shooting

Wednesday 8 June 2022 03:34, UKThere have been gun killings in 43 of the 50 US states in the two weeks since the Texas school shooting.

The witnesses will include 11-year-old Miah Cerrillo who smeared her dead friend's blood on herself. She played dead to survive.The hearing by the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee is titled 'The Urgent Need to Address the Gun Violence Epidemic' and comes as Republican and Democratic politicians remain divided over the extent to which gun laws should be changed.

In Mobile, Alabama, a 24-year-old man shot dead his 61-year-old father. In Jersey City, New Jersey, a 59-year-old was killed by police after pulling a gun on his partner, and in Atlanta, Georgia, a 32-year-old killed a 31-year-old over a gambling dispute.In America, a shooting is declared a"mass shooting" if four or more people are killed not including the gunman. Last weekend alone there were 12 mass shootings across the US.

At the heart of the debate is how to balance the nation’s Second Amendment rights to bear arms with the need to control how easy it is for people to get hold of them.

Divine retribution

Isn't there any efficient method to eliminate/decrease the danger of guns?

Is this fake news? I want to know how many of those deaths were done by legal gun owners otherwise what a useless stat.

Rip to all inncoent lives taken 🙏💔

Meanwhile their children have no rights

Terrorists are so yesterday

At this rate America is going to run out of people

Tom_Fowdy It's easier for Americans to buy a gun than it is for them to find baby formula for their hungry infants. What a sad sad nation the US has become.

That’s what Americans want bcs I don’t see mass protests in going on in USA.

Population control

Taking guns away from Americans would have the same reaction as taking sweets from a child. Let them shoot themselves if it makes them happy. Just stop reporting it as it's boring after 100 years of mass shootings.

Good. It is clearly what Americans want. Otherwise they’d have changed the gun laws ages ago.

Tom_Fowdy Where the hell of their authorities? Can't they do smething ?

There is no balm for this political harlotry, don’t look for one, you will not find one.

Certain Americans think they need guns just in case an invasion happens strange people

City of Chicago success

America is not dealing with the gun problem in a timely manner and the people are still in a panic. Buying a gun is easier than buying a dog

How come you only report in these shootings when it’s a white shooter?

They need their guns to shoot raccoons according to republicans, they are crazy.

Nobody in America needs guns! No guns= no shootings=more people happy and living! Get rid of all guns now!! My gran is 74 next year and she didn’t fight two world wars for this!

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