In case you missed it . . .

[AndyS]

In the last 24 hours:

2 dead, 2 injured in workplace shooting at Alabama plant: Police
https://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-injured-early-morning-shooting-alabama-plant/story?id=78286918

Chicago’s latest mass shooting claims lives of 2 mothers and a man who recently lost his close family
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/6/15/22534689/englewood-mass-shooting-morgan-denice-mathis-shermetria-williams-blake-lee

So far in 2021 we're averaging 54 deaths a day to gun violence. On May 8 we hit a high of 87. This is not including suicides which have also been on the increase and it does not include the injured.

This trend began in 2014 after decades of decline in all crimes. There was no pandemic, no massive increase in gang violence, no new influx of drugs, the economy was booming and unemployment was falling. What happened in 2014? Visit this thread https://www.democraticunderground.com/126213834 , it might offer a hint.

It really is the guns. Reduce the number of guns, reduce the murder rate.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Thanks for the links! I hadn't seen them, and they are important.

It is such an uphill battle. I get discouraged sometimes.

K&R

[AndyS]

2. It is an uphill battle but gun violence is finally getting national coverage. It will take ALL of us

Shootings are a local event and media coverage is local, lasts about a week and it's back to 'lather rinse repeat".

The only real advances anti violence advocates are making are at the local level yet it's a national problem.

California has strict firearms policies but neighboring states do not.

Chicago has some of the most restrictive gun policies but again, next door neighbors do not. 850 of the crime guns recovered in Chicago came from ONE store.

We need national action.