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Apr-4
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The usual crowds filled the streets as bars and nightclubs were closing in California's capital city of Sacramento when the sound of rapid-fire gunshots sent people
Read more from Santa Maria TimesApr-10
Florida Man getting an early start?
Joshua Vining and Colton Whitler, both 17, are facing charges as adults in connection with the death.
Read more from BuzzFeed NewsApr-16
and then there is the good guy with a gun dealing with shoplifters:
VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A Southern California shoe store owner opened fire at two shoplifters, police said, but mistakenly shot a 9-year-old girl about to get her picture with a mall Easter bunny.
Read more from AP NEWSApr-16
I am thinking and praying profusely.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Ten people were shot and two others injured in a shooting at a shopping mall in South Carolina's capital that authorities do not believe was a random attack. Three people who had firearms have been detained in connection with the Saturday afternoon shooting at Columbiana Centre, Columbia Police Chief W.H.
Read more from AP NEWSApr-26
Horrifying video captures the moment that dozens of gunshots rang out in the vicinity of a youth baseball game in South Carolina.
Read more from New York PostMay-10
Yer typical anti-gun screed. I read the whole article and they didn't even mention thoughts and prayers!
More than 45,000 Americans died in gun-related incidents as the pandemic spread in the United States ... But more than half of gun deaths were suicides,
Black men aged 15 to 34 were more than 20 times more likely to be killed with a gun than white men of the same age.
Soaring rates were driven largely by gun-related homicides, which rose 35 percent from 2019 to 2020.
Read more from www.nytimes.comMay-10
More often then not, these black men aged 15 to 34 are criminals, that are shooting at each other and killing each other. They are doing most all of the car jacking, muggings, looting, home invasions, and killing innocent people.
That being said, it doesn't mean they don't need thoughts and prayers, but that is highly unlikely from the NY Times. Most all of them are not Christians.
May-11
interesting actually ... The headlines have been all about violence and racial discrepancies, while more people continue to die each year by suicide via guns!
At least so far, this was 2020.
19,350 gun homicides in 2020
Gun suicides 24,245 in 2020.