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Mass shootings in 2022 (Gun Violence Archive)
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Epidemic of 133 Mass Shootings in the US over the first 98 days of 2021
161 Killed and 524 Injured in just the MASS shootings so far this year (4 or more victims)
By Roger Straw, April 9, 2021
The Gun Violence Archive shows so much more than just numbers. Each number represents the horrific story of friends’ and families’ nightmare. See the numbers below, and so much more at Gun Violence Archive.
“Mass Shootings are, for the most part an American phenomenon. While they are generally grouped together as one type of incident they are several with the foundation definition being that they have a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.”
TOTAL OF 133 MASS SHOOTINGS JAN. 1 TO APR. 8, 161 KILLED, 524 INJURED Source: Gun Violence Archive: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ where you can read details on each incident, and much more. Incident Date State City Or County Address # Killed # Injured 8-Apr-21 Texas Bryan 350 Stone City Dr 1 5 7-Apr-21 South Carolina Rock Hill 4456 Marshall Rd 6 1 7-Apr-21 Wisconsin Milwaukee 2627 W Capitol Dr 2 2 6-Apr-21 District of Columbia Washington 4100 block of Ames St NE 0 4 6-Apr-21 Michigan Detroit 6100 block of Lodewyck St 1 3 5-Apr-21 Illinois Chicago 6800 block of S Justine Ave 0 7 5-Apr-21 Maryland Baltimore 300 block of N Eutaw St 0 5 4-Apr-21 Louisiana Monroe 207 Sterlington Rd 0 6 4-Apr-21 Alabama Birmingham 3969 14th Ave N 1 5 4-Apr-21 Texas Beaumont 6035 S M L King Jr Pkwy 0 4 3-Apr-21 North Carolina Wilmington 718 Kidder St 3 4 3-Apr-21 Alabama Tuscaloosa 2314 4th St 0 5 3-Apr-21 Texas Allen 1517 Pine Bluff Dr 6 0 3-Apr-21 Florida Quincy 2114 Pat Thomas Parkway 0 7 31-Mar-21 California Orange 202 West Lincoln Ave 4 2 31-Mar-21 District of Columbia Washington 1300 block of Congress St SE 2 3 28-Mar-21 Ohio Cleveland 5100 Pearl Rd 0 7 28-Mar-21 Illinois Chicago I-57 and W 127th St 0 4 28-Mar-21 Maryland Essex 1601 Middleborough Rd 5 1 28-Mar-21 Texas San Antonio 2011 Dollarhide Ave 0 4 27-Mar-21 Illinois Chicago 500 block of N Leamington Ave 0 4 27-Mar-21 Mississippi Yazoo City Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr and Shady Dr 0 6 27-Mar-21 Illinois River Grove Belmont Ave 1 3 26-Mar-21 Virginia Virginia Beach 2000 block of Atlantic Ave 0 9 26-Mar-21 Illinois Chicago 2515 W 79th St 1 7 26-Mar-21 Virginia Norfolk 100 block of W Balview Ave 0 4 26-Mar-21 Tennessee Memphis 500 block of Arrington Ave 3 2 26-Mar-21 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 1080 N Delaware Ave 0 7 23-Mar-21 Alabama Aliceville 1st Ave SW and 15th St 2 2 22-Mar-21 Colorado Boulder 3600 Table Mesa Dr 10 1 22-Mar-21 Michigan Detroit 13300 block of Davidson St 1 3 20-Mar-21 Texas Houston 10266 North Fwy 0 5 20-Mar-21 Texas Dallas 10333 Technology Blvd 1 7 20-Mar-21 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 4234 Germantown Ave 1 5 18-Mar-21 Oregon Gresham 750 E Powell Blvd 0 4 18-Mar-21 Louisiana New Orleans 2400 Annette St 0 4 17-Mar-21 California Stockton Oro Ave and E Main St 0 5 16-Mar-21 Georgia Acworth 6468 Hwy 92 8 1 16-Mar-21 Arizona Phoenix 6215 W Elm St 4 1 15-Mar-21 Indiana Indianapolis 2300 block of N Harding St 1 4 14-Mar-21 Florida Tampa 10101 US-92 0 4 14-Mar-21 Illinois Chicago 2600 block of E 77th St 0 4 14-Mar-21 Illinois Chicago 6798 block of S South Chicago Ave 2 13 13-Mar-21 New York Brooklyn 917 Flushing Ave 0 5 13-Mar-21 Florida Orlando 200 block of Ring Rd 1 3 13-Mar-21 Indiana Indianapolis 300 block of N Randolph St 4 1 13-Mar-21 Virginia Richmond 5100 block of Richmond Henrico Tpke 2 4 12-Mar-21 North Carolina Greensboro 100 block of Huffman St 1 3 12-Mar-21 Texas Austin 7408 Cameron Rd 0 4 11-Mar-21 New Mexico Ohkay Owingeh (Chamita) 89 Rio Arriba Co Rd 56 1 3 11-Mar-21 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 1400 block of N 76th St 1 3 10-Mar-21 Texas Houston 6300 Ranchester Dr 3 1 8-Mar-21 Florida Clearwater US-19 ALT and Drew St 1 3 7-Mar-21 Mississippi Edwards 607 Wallace Dr 0 4 6-Mar-21 California Yuba City Countryside Dr and Littlejohn Dr 2 3 6-Mar-21 North Carolina Fayetteville 200 block of Shads Ford Blvd 1 4 5-Mar-21 California Compton 600 block of N Long Beach Blvd 1 4 4-Mar-21 District of Columbia Washington 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SW 0 5 3-Mar-21 Pennsylvania Erie 2105 Buffalo Rd 2 3 28-Feb-21 Ohio Cincinnati 3600 block of Idlewild Ave 3 3 28-Feb-21 Indiana East Chicago 1205 W Chicago Ave 0 4 28-Feb-21 Delaware Dover 21 S Little Creek Rd 0 4 28-Feb-21 South Carolina Mccormick 437 Talbert Rd 0 4 28-Feb-21 Louisiana Shreveport 4914 Mansfield Rd 0 5 28-Feb-21 Texas Houston 13484 Northwest Fwy 0 4 27-Feb-21 Mississippi Columbus 1200 block of 7th St S 0 4 27-Feb-21 Mississippi Pattison Pattison-Tillman Rd 2 3 26-Feb-21 Texas Houston 8708 Beechnut St 1 5 26-Feb-21 Louisiana Baton Rouge 4700 block of Paige St 0 4 26-Feb-21 California San Diego 841 S 45th St 1 3 21-Feb-21 Missouri Kennett 1615 1st St 1 4 21-Feb-21 North Carolina Teachey Thomas Smith Ln and Bay Rd 0 4 20-Feb-21 Pennsylvania Norristown (East Norriton) 2912 Swede Rd 1 4 20-Feb-21 Colorado Grand Junction 1000 block of Teller Ave 1 3 20-Feb-21 Illinois Springfield 1100 block of S Grand Ave W 1 4 20-Feb-21 Louisiana Metairie 6719 Airline Dr 3 2 18-Feb-21 Louisiana Baton Rouge 2047 N Foster Dr 1 3 17-Feb-21 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 5597 Old York Rd 0 8 16-Feb-21 Florida Saint Petersburg 2968 Emerson Ave S 3 1 13-Feb-21 California San Francisco 3rd St and Quesada Ave 0 6 13-Feb-21 Indiana Indianapolis 3800 block of N Sherman Dr 0 4 13-Feb-21 California Oakland 1000 block of Washington St 0 6 13-Feb-21 North Carolina Cary 101 Reed St 1 3 11-Feb-21 Georgia Columbus 2001 South Lumpkin Rd 1 4 10-Feb-21 Georgia Atlanta 62 Harwell Rd NW 0 4 9-Feb-21 Texas Houston 945 W Little York Rd 0 4 9-Feb-21 Minnesota Buffalo 755 Crossroads Campus Dr 1 4 6-Feb-21 Tennessee Murfreesboro Ewing Blvd and West St 1 4 6-Feb-21 Louisiana Thibodaux 1100 block of Tiger Dr 0 4 6-Feb-21 Illinois Bloomingdale 250 W Schick Rd 1 5 6-Feb-21 Washington Tacoma 3634 E McKinley Ave 1 3 5-Feb-21 Pennsylvania Mohnton 360 E Wyomissing Ave 1 3 5-Feb-21 Mississippi Benoit 1017 Lake Bolivar Rd 3 1 4-Feb-21 North Carolina High Point 2912 W English Rd 2 3 3-Feb-21 Tennessee Memphis 800 block of Olympic St 1 3 3-Feb-21 Colorado Oak Creek 200 block of Wild Hogg Dr 3 2 2-Feb-21 Florida Fort Lauderdale (Sunrise) 10100 Reflections Blvd W 3 3 2-Feb-21 Oklahoma Muskogee 903 Indiana St 6 1 1-Feb-21 New York Rochester 400 block of Lyell Avenue 1 3 31-Jan-21 Illinois Chicago W Congress Pkwy and S Independence Blvd 0 4 30-Jan-21 New York Albany 200 block of Central Ave 1 4 29-Jan-21 Pennsylvania Mc Kees Rocks (Mckees Rocks) 824 Island Ave 2 3 28-Jan-21 Michigan Flint 1900 block of Tebo St 1 4 27-Jan-21 California Santa Ana 1614 S Standard Ave 0 4 25-Jan-21 District of Columbia Washington 1406 Good Hope Rd SE 1 4 24-Jan-21 Indiana Indianapolis 3540 Adams St 5 1 24-Jan-21 Nevada Las Vegas W Wilson Ave and H St 0 5 22-Jan-21 Kentucky Covington 217 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd 0 5 21-Jan-21 California Oakland 107th Ave and Apricot St 1 3 18-Jan-21 Pennsylvania Tobyhanna 960 PA-196 0 4 17-Jan-21 Arizona Phoenix 2340 W Northern Ave 0 5 17-Jan-21 Arizona Phoenix 2236 E University Dr 1 6 16-Jan-21 Illinois Kankakee 600 block of N Evergreen Ave 0 5 15-Jan-21 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 5000 block of N 10th St 0 4 11-Jan-21 Florida Miami 2491 NE 58th St 0 4 9-Jan-21 Illinois Evanston 100 Asbury Ave 6 2 9-Jan-21 Texas Houston 5828 Martin Luther King Blvd 1 3 7-Jan-21 District of Columbia Washington 1300 block of Columbia Rd NW 0 5 6-Jan-21 Texas Livingston 201 Maple Ln 2 2 6-Jan-21 Virginia Manassas 10010 Ellis Rd 3 3 4-Jan-21 Louisiana New Orleans 1600 block of N Galvez St 0 4 4-Jan-21 Florida Tampa 1225 S 78th St 0 5 4-Jan-21 Florida Fort Lauderdale (Lauderhill) 1828 NW 38th Ave 0 7 3-Jan-21 Oregon Gresham NE 181st Ave and NE San Rafael St 0 4 3-Jan-21 Texas Houston 2900 Travis St 1 4 3-Jan-21 Florida Miami 3632 NW 25th Ave 0 6 3-Jan-21 Louisiana Shreveport 6900 block of Jewella Ave 2 3 3-Jan-21 California Santa Barbara 1200 block of Liberty St 2 2 3-Jan-21 Florida Miami 10525 NW 24th Ave 0 8 1-Jan-21 Arkansas Fort Smith 3211 Towson Ave 0 7 1-Jan-21 Texas Amarillo 2650 Dumas Dr 1 3 1-Jan-21 Iowa Sioux City 2637 S Walker St 1 4 1-Jan-21 Illinois Galesburg 1000 block of Monroe St 0 4 133 MASS SHOOTINGS, TOTALS KILLED AND INJURED: 161 524
Canada Orders Immediate Ban on Assault Weapons in Wake of Deadly Mass Shooting
PM Justin Trudeau said the government had been in the process of introducing the ban when its agenda was overturned by the pandemic.
OTTAWA — Nearly two weeks after the deadliest mass shooting in Canada’s history, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday introduced an immediate ban on what he described as “military-style assault weapons.”
“These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time,” Mr. Trudeau said. “There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada.”
The ban means that Canadians will no longer be able to own rifles like the AR-15, the military-style weapon used in several mass shootings in the United States including those in Newtown, Conn.; Orlando, Fla.; and Parkland, Fla.
By introducing the ban, Mr. Trudeau partly fulfills a gun control promise he made during last year’s federal elections. He said the government had been in the process of introducing an assault weapons ban when its agenda was overturned by the coronavirus pandemic.
In making the announcement, Mr. Trudeau noted several gun killings and repeatedly cited the shooting rampage in rural Nova Scotia that left 23 people dead, including the gunman.
The gunman’s arsenal included two models banned on Friday, said Bill Blair, the country’s public safety minister.
The killer did not have a firearms license and many of his guns and rifles had been smuggled into Canada from the United States, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, highlighting one difficulty Canada may face in enforcing the new measure. The U.S. federal government has not barred assault weapons since a previous ban expired in 2004.
The swift response by Mr. Trudeau to the killings in Nova Scotia stands in contrast to that of officials in the United States, where repeated efforts to renew the now-lapsed assault weapons ban have failed.
The Canadian government has drawn up a list of about 1,500 gun models covered by the new ban. It estimates that about 100,000 such semiautomatic rifles are now legally owned by Canadians.
Mr. Trudeau said the government will introduce legislation to buy back the rifles, another part of his campaign promise, at a future date. Until then, owners have been given two years to keep their rifles although they can no longer use them, trade them or sell them except to buyers outside Canada with a permit. Gun shops can return any of the weapons they now have in stock to manufacturers.
While handguns and automatic weapons are tightly restricted in Canada, most rifles and shotguns have been more loosely regulated. The previous Conservative government shut down a registry for such weapons that had been set up after a man gunned down 14 young women and injured 13 others in 1989 at the École Polytechnique engineering school in Montreal.
That database was beset by technical problems and was deeply unpopular in rural areas. Mr. Trudeau has resisted calls from gun control groups to revive it.
Mr. Trudeau said on Friday that his planned legislation will also include a measure that will allow cities to ban handguns within their boundaries, another of his campaign pledges.
Andrew Scheer, the leader of the Conservative Party, repeated his longstanding opposition to any ban and buyback of military-style weapons, noting that many mass killers, including Gabriel Wortman in Nova Scotia, and other criminals use illegal firearms brought in from the United States.
“It’s easy but lazy government to ask the people who follow all the rules to follow more rules,” Mr. Scheer told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He also criticized Mr. Trudeau for introducing the measure through a cabinet order while Parliament is not meeting in normal sessions because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Wendy Cukier, the president of the Coalition for Gun Control, said that most mass shootings in Canada have involved legally owned rifles and said there’s evidence that the availability of military-style weapons may make such killings more likely.
“Most mass shooters are law abiding until they are not,” she said.
What motivated the 13.5-hour killing spree in Nova Scotia by Mr. Wortman, a denture fitter, remains unknown. It started in the tiny summer community of Portapique when Mr. Wortman assaulted his partner and tied her up. She escaped and he began shooting people inside and outside of their homes while he also set fire to several buildings, including some of his own properties.
After the police arrived shortly before midnight on April 18, they found two replica Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruisers registered to Mr. Wortman on fire and located a third at his full-time residence in Halifax. That led the police to believe, they said, that he may have committed suicide and was in one of the burning buildings.
But after hiding in the woods all night, Mr. Wortman’s partner told police that he was traveling in a fourth replica police car that did not have license plates. Investigators subsequently discovered that he had eluded them by driving through a farm field and then hiding in another town where he resumed his killing spree in the morning.
He was eventually shot and killed after pulling into a gas station while driving a car belonging to one of the victims.
Ms. Cukier acknowledged that the government will have to continually update its list to prevent manufacturers from circumventing the ban by modifying current models and reintroducing them as new weapons. Her group, she said, will recommend that future legislation focus more on a system in which gunmakers must get approval to sell specific weapons rather than on steps to ban the weapons.
And while her group generally takes stances that oppose those of the Conservatives, she agreed that more must be done about smuggled weapons.
“There are a lot of things that have to happen,” she said. “Most Canadians don’t know the extent to which our laws have been eroded.”
Alan Drummond, who has long pushed for more gun controls through the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, praised Mr. Trudeau and members of his cabinet for their unequivocal statements about the need to ban assault weapons.
“What struck me was the absolute clarity and conviction,” he said.
More people are using California’s new firearms seizure laws
By Roger Straw, January 8, 2020
I was encouraged to read a headline in the Washington Post this morning, “Colorado just used its gun seizure law for the first time — one day after it took effect.”
The Post report is specific to Colorado, but it outlines a “growing list of states with legislation allowing authorities to seize firearms from people deemed to be at risk of harming themselves or others.”
“Until the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018, four other states followed Connecticut’s lead in adopting “red flag” legislation. Since then, a dozen states and the District of Columbia have passed gun seizure laws in an effort to prevent rising gun violence and suicides by firearm.”
Connecticut was the first state to enact a red flag law. It did so in 1999 following a rampage shooting at the Connecticut Lottery.
California adopted its red-flag law in 2014, the first state to pass a red flag law allowing immediate family members to petition courts to take weapons from persons deemed a threat. The law also permits police and roommates to request confiscation.
In February 2019, the Chronicle’s Alexei Koseff reported that California gun confiscations had increased sharply under the restraining-order law. “Courts approved petitions to confiscate weapons from 424 people in 2018, according to the Justice Department. That was up dramatically from 2017, when 104 such orders were issued, and 2016, the year the law took effect, when there were 86. In the nine Bay Area counties, gun violence restraining orders jumped significantly, to 53 [in 2018], from 14 in 2017.”
Most recently in October 2019, California strengthened its firearm seizure laws, expanding the right to request confiscation to co-workers and employers. The new law, AB1493, also creates “a way for someone subject to an order to voluntarily relinquish their gun ownership.” [SF Chronicle, More Californians can seek gun removals after Newsom signs new firearm laws]
HOW TO REQUEST A GUN VIOLENCE RESTRAINING ORDER:
If you know of someone who is a firearm danger to self or others, call 911 or contact your local police. AND… for more information and instructions see online at California Courts, Ask For a Gun Violence Restraining Order (courts.ca.gov/33679.htm). [I am surprised that the California Courts page has seemingly not caught up with the 2019 law expanding the right to petition to co-workers and employers.]
Let’s hope the strengthened law has the intended outcome of decreasing suicides and homicides here in California.
More Californians can seek gun removals after Newsom signs new firearm laws
• AB164 by Assemblywoman Sabrina Cervantes, D-Riverside, which authorizes California law enforcement officers to remove weapons from people who are not allowed to own guns because of a restraining order in another state.
• AB879 by Assemblyman Mike Gipson, D-Carson (Los Angeles County), which requires that parts that could be used to build a gun at home be sold through a licensed manufacturer after a background check, starting in July 2024.
• SB61 by Sen. Anthony Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge (Los Angeles County), which limits gun buyers to one semiautomatic center-fire rifle per month and forbids Californians under age 21 from purchasing them.
• SB376 by Portantino, which requires that guns won at charity auctions or raffles be transferred through a licensed dealer and that the recipients undergo a waiting period.
• AB645 by Irwin, which adds a suicide prevention hot line number to the warning label on gun packaging and requires the written test for a handgun safety certificate to cover suicide.
• AB1297 by Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, which eliminates the $100 limit for concealed-carry license fees and requires counties to charge what it costs to pay for administering the program.
• AB 521 by Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto, which directs the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center to develop education and training programs for medical and mental health providers on preventing gun injuries.
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