The shootings have come at a relentless pace. Gun violence this year has cut through celebrations and funerals, places of work and houses of worship. It has taken lives at a grocery store and in a fast-food drive-through lane.
And most of all, it has unfolded on city streets and in family homes, away from the cameras and far from the national spotlight.
By almost every measure, 2021 has already been a terrible year for gun violence. And many fear it will get worse. Last weekend alone, more than 120 people died in shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive, with three especially dangerous incidents in Austin, Texas; Chicago; and Savannah, Ga., killing two and injuring at least 30.
Through the first five months of 2021, gunfire killed more than 8,100 people in the United States, about 54 lives lost per day, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research organization. That’s 14 more deaths per day than the average toll during the same period of the previous six years.
Experts have attributed the increase to a variety of new and long-standing issues – including entrenched inequality, soaring gun ownership, and fraying relations between police and the communities they serve – all intensified during the coronavirus pandemic and widespread uprisings for racial justice.
Ya and the city of Shitcago is at the center of it all, but 90% of the time the prosecutor in Chicago drops the gun charges in plea agreements, clearly saying to Felons with guns that it is okay. If you want to stop some of the shootings charge every Felon in possession of a gun with that Federal charge! Federal prison time is rougher than county or state time.
Lock away the black felons doing the shootings and watch the numbers drop!!!
Bad people will always…ALWAYS fine a way to get guns. No matter how many rules or laws are made, they always find a way.
21st century and one can make them (ghost guns) with anyone knowing.
Defunding the police caused more deaths in black communities… Always in Democrat run cities
ALL the WOKE Democrat’s Fault !!!!
This could be why this year is so deadly and years past.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/kim-foxx-drops-more-felony-cases-as-cook-county-state-s-attorney-than-her-predecessor-tribune-analysis-shows/ar-BB17N8H9