Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON: In the United States, with more guns than citizens and one emerging from three years of isolation, stress, and infighting amid the pandemic, American citizens are beginning 2023 with a steady barrage of mass slaughter.
According to TRT World, 11 citizens were killed as they welcomed the Lunar New Year at a dance hall popular with older Asian Americans. A mother and her baby were shot in the head in an attack that killed five generations. A six-year-old shot his first-grade teacher in the classroom the list goes on.
United States sees barrage of mass shootings
“We have been through so much in these past few years, and to continue to see case after case of mass violence in the media is just overwhelming,” said Apryl Alexander, an associate professor of public health at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
“When does this stop?”
The carnage over eight days in California, the dance hall victims on Saturday night were among two dozen people killed in three recent attacks, reminded families of last year’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Many Uvalde families and parents travelled more than 3 hours to their state’s Capitol to renew calls for tighter gun laws, even if they had a chance of winning over the Republican-controlled Legislature.
American citizens have come to endure mass shootings in churches and grocery stores, concerts and office parks, and inside the houses of friends and neighbours. The violence was blamed on hatred toward other communities, grievances within the groups, secrets within families, and bitterness among colleagues.
