Two weeks after the sad murder of 19 students and two staff members at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, the US House of Representatives has established a special committee to investigate.
In the two weeks following the school massacre in Texas, there have been gun homicides in 43 of the 50 states.
Since May 24th, more than 650 events have resulted in 730 deaths, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Twenty-three children died, more than the entire number of deaths in Uvalde, and 66 adolescents perished.
Politicians on Capitol Hill struggle to find common ground over how, or even if, to modify America’s gun laws in light of these sobering statistics.
Two weeks ago, a school shooting occurred in Uvalde, Texas. Politicians will hear testimony from the parents and survivors of the school massacre.
11-year-old Miah Cerrillo, who smeared her deceased friend’s blood on herself, will be among the witnesses. She pretended to be dead to survive.
The hearing is themed “The Urgent Need to Address the Gun Violence Epidemic” and comes as Republican and Democratic leaders remain divided over the extent to which gun laws should be altered.
This chart of daily gun deaths demonstrates that the day of the Uvalde shooting was not even uncommon in the United States; there have been just five days since the shooting on which there were fewer gun deaths than on May 24.
The majority of occurrences result in a single fatality, frequently as a result of the escalation of a street fight or domestic violence, or at the hands of police.
A 15-year-old kid was slain by a 19-year-old during a confrontation outside a home in Akron, Ohio, on the same day as the Robb Elementary School shooting.
In Mobile, Alabama, a 24-year-old man fatally shot his father, who was 61 years old. In Jersey City, New Jersey, police murdered a 59-year-old man who pulled a gun on his colleague, while in Atlanta, Georgia, a 32-year-old man killed a 31-year-old man over a gambling dispute.
These are 33 occurrences that occurred on May 24 alone.
Mass murders since Uvalde
Since Uvalde, however, there have been 34 mass shootings in the United States in which four or more people were killed or injured.
These 34 mass attacks have occurred in 17 states and resulted in 161 injuries and 35 fatalities. In Texas alone, there have been three new incidents since the Uvalde shooting.
