Ralph Yarl, Kaylin Gillis and other senseless shootings rattle US

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Ringing the wrong doorbell.

Driving up the wrong road.

Approaching the wrong car.

Losing a ball in a neighbour's yard.

These are the common mistakes for which everyday Americans have been shot over the past seven days - one of them as young as six.

Rather than mass shootings, it is these smaller, everyday incidents that account for a majority of firearms deaths and injuries in the US. And this week illustrated how these isolated acts accumulate into a larger portrait of gun violence in America.

 

"The main type of incidents that we have are one or two people get shot," said Mark Bryant, director of the Gun Violence Archive. They have calculated 165 mass shootings so far this year, but thousands of smaller incidents.

An average of 50 people die each day in the United States from non-suicide gun incidents, and roughly 100 are injured, according Mr Bryant and the Gun Violence Archive.

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It’s the constant screaming blantant exaggeration of rampant crime by the (conservative) media has all these paranoid nutters trigger happy + the regular run of the mill of criminals with guns it needs to stop obviously but some party’s seem to egg it on

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Failed nation.

 

Reset the whole place as a British colony again.

 

Just keep the dentists.