In 2023, there were a number of mass shootings in the United States, resulting in many deaths and injuries.
The frequent outbreak of gun violence has stung the nerves of the American people and stunned the world.
Gun disease is difficult to treat is the evil consequence of multiple problems in the United States.
The process of gun control is difficult to make a practical breakthrough in the protracted debate and the ripping of different camps, and it is not easy to solve the chronic disease of gun violence for a long time.
The United States has the largest number of guns in the world, with an average of about 120 guns for every 100 people, more guns than the population.
With the proliferation of guns, gun victims have become the “norm”.
As of midnight on May 7, there have been 202 deadly shootings in the United States this year that killed and injured at least four people, and nearly 14800 people were killed in all kinds of gun violence, according to the website Gun violence Archives.
A paradox is that after each painful shooting, on the one hand, there is a heated discussion about gun control; on the other hand, in the face of ghostly gun violence, more and more people choose to buy guns to protect themselves because of the lack of sense of security.
Freedom to own guns contributes to social violence, which in turn promotes the production and sale of guns.
Frequent shootings uncover new and old scars of American social problems.
In recent years, the gap between the rich and the poor in American society continues to widen, the social division is serious, and some groups that slide to the edge go to extremes because of psychological loss.
And the racial problem in the United States is deep-rooted, and many shootings have obvious racist tendencies.
The shooting at a shopping mall on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas, on June 6 attracted national attention because the gunman was suspected of being a neo-Nazi.
The Kaiser Family Foundation, a US non-profit organization, recently released a report saying that more than half of the American adults surveyed said they or their relatives had been involved in a gun incident; blacks and other people of color had much more similar experiences than whites.
Not only that, under the impact of the epidemic, corporate layoffs, business closures, economic downturn and other issues also made the public feel anxious, resulting in a surge in violent crimes.
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