Interesting statement "Gun violence spiked at the beginning of the pandemic and has remained high."
Why? Guns aren't going to kill the virus. It is fear. The heightened fear that is the basis of Trump politics took hold. The trend does look as though it is returning to a lower level in 2021.
PUT DOWN THE GUNS AND GET VACCINATED!
By Nigel Chiwaya
It may feel like America entered a new wave of gun violence in 2021, (click here) but a review of shootings with multiple victims shows that their frequency has been unusually high for more than a year.
Data from the Gun Violence Archive shows that the number of multiple-victim shootings first spiked in April 2020 and has stayed high since. The most recent wave of shootings around the country, including the April 15 attack in Indianapolis where eight people were killed at a FedEx facility, is just the latest symptom of that trend.
People buy guns out of fear and then they become weapons in revenge of hurt and anger.
PUT THE GUNS DOWN, AMERICA!
May 9, 2021
By Shelly Bradbury
A man walked into a birthday party in Colorado Springs (click here) early Sunday and opened fire, killing six people before ending his own life, police said, in what is now one of Colorado’s deadliest mass shootings.
Freddy Marquez, who attended the party with his wife and children, but left before the shooting, said all of the victims were members of the same extended family, which had gathered to celebrate the birthdays of Marquez’s wife and her brother.
The shooting happened just after midnight at the Canterbury Mobile Home Park in the 2800 block of Preakness Way, Colorado Springs police Lt. James Sokolik said in a news release.
Investigators believe the shooter, who has not been publicly identified, was the boyfriend of a woman at the party.
“He drove to the residence, walked inside and began shooting people at the party before taking his own life,” Sokolik said in the news release.
None of the children at the party were hurt and they are now in the care of relatives, police said....
