Washington: After the shooting at the Independence Day Parade in Chicago, USA, the atmosphere of celebration turned into mourning. Before the shooting, people were taking to the streets to celebrate Independence.
Due to the holiday, there was a crowd of people on the streets. The attackers took advantage of this and fired indiscriminately at innocent people.
People started running to safer places to save their lives. But the attackers continued to target unarmed people regardless of age and sex of people. Six people lost their lives in the mass shooting incident, while 57 people were injured.
Rise in gun violence:
This is not the first time that people have been shot at in a public place in the United States. There have been various arguments about the reason behind such gruesome incidents that are constantly taking place in the US. This time also the people involved in the attackers are between the ages of 18 and 20. Gun culture is becoming increasingly prevalent among young people in the U.S.
Scary figures of gun violence:
The mass shooting gun violence data has been released and it intimidating. According to the Gun Violence Archive organization, so far in 2022, 309 mass shootings have been carried out. The highest number of people killed in this shooting were youth.
According to the data, 179 children between the ages of 0-11 and 670 juveniles between the ages of 12 and 17 have lost their lives in these massacres. According to the report, a total of 693 mass shootings were carried out in the Us in 2021. In 2019, there were a total of 417 shootings.
The 15th mass murder of the year
The report claimed that this is the 15th mass shooting incident in just seven months since the beginning of this year. In the U.S., attackers are constantly targeting schools. According to statistics, in 2016, the Alpine School in Texas was targeted. in which one student was killed. In 2018, an attacker killed 10 people at St. Fey’s School in Texas. Last year, four people were killed in a shooting at Michigan High School. All these figures are enough to prove that schools have been easy targets for attackers.
Why are there an increase in mass murders?
According to experts, the main reason behind the rapidly increasing mass shootings in the US is the Gun Act here. According to The Gun Control Act 1968 in the United States, the age of a person is set at 18 years to buy any small weapon. At the same time, the age of the person to buy a handgun has been fixed at 21 years.
Since the applicant’s age for the purchase of weapons is very young, it can be easily purchased. But there are no special rules set to monitor its proper use.
At the same time, the report also claims that in the US, which has a population of 330 million, the country’s civilians have 390 million weapons. Access to weapons to a large section of the population could also be a vital reason for the rise in mass shootings in the U.S.