The numbers laid out here will likely have changed by the time you read this news: America's gun death counters just keep going up.
At the time of writing this information, official sources put the number of victims of a shooting during a teenage girl's birthday party at a party hall in Dadeville, a small town in the county of Four dead and twenty wounded Tallapoosa in Alabama.
And the Guns Violence Archive put the death toll in murders and homicides by gunfire at 5,250 since the beginning of the year, a large part of which in one of the 163 mass shootings recorded until yesterday as a whole of the country. The average is 50 shooting deaths every day.
Activists against the free sale of guns of all kinds, engaged in a dull civil war with supporters of assault rifles for all, call it the "epidemic of gun violence."
The Dadeville event became known yesterday morning, with late and trickle-down data. According to the State Law Enforcement Agency, it happened shortly after 10:30 on Saturday night at the Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio in this town of about 3,000 inhabitants.
It only indicated that there were four confirmed deaths while other sources spoke of five or six. And a possible "riot" was mentioned.
According to the Montgomery Advertiser newspaper, among the dead was high school senior and football standout Phil Dowdell, who was set to graduate in a few weeks, his grandmother, Annette, revealed Allen. The party was celebrating the 16th birthday of Alexis, Phil's sister. The mother of both was injured, Allen added.
“This morning, I cry with the people of Dadeville and my fellow Alabamans. Violent crime has no place in our state," state governor Kay Ivey said in a statement.
The Alabama shooting was the second mass shooting with more than one fatality this past weekend in the US; the other was in a park in Louisville, Kentucky, also on Saturday, with two dead and four injured.
Despite growing popular clamor for measures against civilian sales of assault weapons, particularly the AR-15, a popular assault rifle among assassins, Republicans are opposed to introducing new restrictions or rolling back existing ones. rule for some time, such as the ban on certain rifles between 1994 and 2004. The National Rifle Association funds the campaigns of quite a few of these politicians, and a significant portion of the population continues to defend free access to guns and rifles
It is not important that, to name only the most recent killings, a bank teller shot and killed five colleagues in Kentucky on Monday. Or that three 9-year-olds and three employees at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, were killed by a former student on March 27. The epidemic continues its course.
