Two weeks on from the tragic murder of 19 children and two staff at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, a special committee has been launched at the US House of Representatives to investigate. Sky News looks at the scale of gun violence that has happened in the country since then.
There have been gun killings in 43 of the 50 US states in the two weeks since the Texas school shooting.
More than 650 incidents have resulted in 730 deaths since 24 May, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive.
Twenty-three of those who died were children, more than the total number who died in Uvalde, and 66 were teenagers.
The figures provide the deeply troubling context for politicians on Capitol Hill as they struggle to find common ground over how, or even if, to reform America's gun laws.
Politicians will hear testimony from the parents and survivors of the school shooting in Uvalde two weeks ago.
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The US should ban gun ownership of the citizens to avoid gun shootings in the public
There have already been more than 250 mass shootings this year in the United States
Mass shootings, where four or more people — not including the shooter — are injured or killed, have averaged more than one per day so far this year
Not a single week in the US in 2022 has passed without at least four mass shootings.
Mass shootings have been on the rise in recent years
Gun violence and school shootings are a uniquely American epidemic
Each day 12 children die from gun violence in America. Another 32 are shot and injured
Guns are the leading cause of death among American children and teens. 1 out of 10 gun deaths are age 19 or younger
In America, firearm deaths occur at a rate more than 5 times higher than drownings
The U.S. has had 2,032 school shootings since 1970 and these numbers are increasing. Alarmingly, 948 school shootings have taken place since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012
The US should learn Vietnam's policy how to protect people's lives
School shootings have returned to pre-COVID levels and by some accounts have even increased. However, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security research shows that if we “know the signs” of gun violence, we can prevent it and reverse the trend
An estimated 4.6 million American children live in a home where at least one gun is kept loaded and unlocked. These improperly stored weapons have contributed to school shootings, suicides and the deaths of family members, including infants and toddlers
Nearly half of all parents with a weapon in the home wrongly believe their children don’t know where a gun is stored
In 4 out of 5 school shootings, at least one other person had knowledge of the attacker’s plan but failed to report it.
I feel safe when I'm in Vietnam, knowing that people around me has no guns
Vietnam is safer than America and lost of countries around the world
In America, black youth are four times more likely to be killed with guns than their white peers
Mass shootings are an increasingly common phenomenon in the United States
it seems mass shootings are becoming a more common occurrence in the United States
mass shootings produce both an immediate human toll as well as widespread societal repercussions.
According to the United Nations, the increasing bifurcation of national income is particularly acute in the United State
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