We know how to fix the problem of gun violence, so why haven’t we acted on it?
On May 24, a gunman walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex., and killed 19 children and 2 teachers. It was the third deadliest school shooting in US history. It recalls the shooting 10 years ago, when 20 students and 6 adults were killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School. More recently, at a high school in Parkland, Fla, a shooter killed 17 people. While these are the most visible school shootings over the past decade, 27 other school shootings have taken place this year alone and over 200 mass shootings—defined as when 4 or more people are shot or killed—have happened this year as well. There were 693 mass shootings in 2021. Horrifically, two weeks ago we saw guns used in a racially motivated massacre in Buffalo, N.Y., where 13 people were shot and 10 killed, with 11 of the victims Black. The list could, and does, go on.
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