![]() ![]() But every country has people with mental health issues and extremists those problems aren’t unique. Gun control opponents have typically framed the gun violence epidemic in the US as a symptom of a broader mental health crisis. The US gun homicide rate is as much as 26 times that of other high-income countries its gun suicide rate is nearly 12 times higher. Since 2009, there has been an annual average of 19 shootings in which at least four people are killed. Every day, 120 Americans die at the end of a gun, including suicides and homicides, an average of 43,375 per year. No other high-income country has suffered such a high death toll from gun violence. These shootings come in the wake of numerous others last year including at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado on a school bus allegedly targeting members of the University of Virginia football team at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. It follows mass shootings at a Sweet 16 party in Dadeville, Alabama a bank in Louisville, Kentucky at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee at Michigan State University at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, California and at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, California. The incident in Cleveland is America’s 174th mass shooting - an incident during which four or more people are shot, as defined by the Gun Violence Archive - since the beginning of 2023. Five people were shot and killed Friday night, including an 8-year-old, in a mass shooting that occurred at a Cleveland, Texas home after neighbors asked the shooter to stop firing his assault rifle in his front yard because their baby was trying to sleep.
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