Pak Sahafat – For the third year in a row, this year (2022), the United States has witnessed more than 600 mass shootings annually.
According to the report of the non-governmental organization Archive of Armed Violence in the United States, as of November 2022, there have been about 609 mass shooting incidents in this country.
According to the definition of the American media, mass shootings are incidents in which four or more people, other than the attacker, have been shot.
In this way, America is getting close to recording about 675 mass shootings by the end of this year, which has about a month left.
This week, a shooting in a nightclub in the US state of Colorado left 5 dead and 18 injured. After that, 7 people died in a shooting at a Walmart chain store in the state of Virginia on Tuesday night.
Only three more mass shootings are needed before 2022 becomes the second year in a row with the highest number of annual shootings, researchers at the American Archives of Gun Violence said in a statement.
According to the data of this institute, this year 39 thousand 816 people in America have lost their lives during armed violence. More than 18,000 cases of armed violence in the United States this year were murders and more than 21,500 were suicides using guns.
While US President Joe Biden has been unable to control armed violence in his country for nearly two years, he again promised to deal with assault weapons.
It’s disgusting that we’re allowing semi-automatic weapons to be sold, added Biden, who spoke to reporters outside a fire station in Nantucket, Mass., during a visit Thursday during the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Deadly shooting in the American state of Virginia with 10 dead
On Wednesday, local time, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, expressed regret for the shooting at a Walmart store in Chesapeake, Virginia, which killed 7 people and is the latest case of mass shootings in this country.
Biden said that because of another horrific and brutal act of violence, fewer families are now celebrating Thanksgiving and we must unite as a nation and do more.
According to police reports, the armed person was one of the managers of this store who committed suicide after shooting at people inside this shopping center.
A few months ago, the US House of Representatives, which was under the control of the Democrats, approved a plan to ban these weapons, but the probability of success in the Senate is very low.
The 50% increase in mass shootings in the United States is an undeniable fact that the increasing trend of injury and death is due to the attackers’ use of machine guns, and today it has become a human rights crisis in the United States.
The issue of mass shootings in America is always one of the human rights issues in this country. Today, mass shootings have become a human rights crisis in America. The common feature of almost all mass shootings in America is the use of machine guns by the attackers; That is, a war weapon with high-capacity magazines that causes the highest number of deaths.
The US Federal Police (FBI) recently published the statistics of shootings of citizens in public places in 2021, according to which 61 shooting incidents occurred in different states last year. In 2021, shootings of citizens increased by 50% compared to the previous year, and 103 people were killed and 140 people were injured. In 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been at least 320 mass shootings in the United States.
In addition, according to the statistics provided (time frame of report preparation) by this organization, so far 29 thousand 626 deaths caused by gun violence have been recorded, of which about 13 thousand 588 people across the United States are due to the use of firearms, including intentional and accidental murder. In 2021, about 700 such shootings have occurred, which has reached this figure from 611 in 2022 and 417 in 2019, which compared to the same time period last year, this year has been associated with the highest increase.
Studies by the organization “Tighter Gun Laws Save Lives” conducted on 50 American states show that there is a direct relationship between the rate of gun violence in states that have stricter gun laws and those that do not applying it.
Furthermore; According to a Gallup poll, 66 percent of Americans support stricter gun laws. 55 percent prefer that Congress pass new gun laws in addition to enforcing current laws, and 55 percent of voters believe gun policy is “very important” to the midterm vote.