United States sees 146 mass shootings in 2023, and counting
2023-04-12 09:33:50 source：CGTN
April 12, 2023
Firearms became the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. in 2020, surpassing car accidents, and signaling a complete shift in society and medicine since the year 1900, when the leading factors of child-death were pneumonia and tuberculosis.
Already in 2023, there have been 146 mass shootings in the U.S., the group says. A total of 71 children under the age of 11 have already been killed in a mass shooting in the U.S. in 2023, with 160 injured.
On Monday, April 10, 2023 a disgruntled bank employee killed five former coworkers with a legally-purchased assault rifle in Louisville, KY. Take a look at what is going on with gun violence and gun control laws in the U.S. amid the rising 2023 death toll in the U.S. from gun violence.
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