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Ambulance at the scene of the crime (archive image)
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In Chicago alone there were 83 people.
They were shot between Friday, 6 p.m. and Monday, 6 a.m., 14 of them died.
Among the injured is a five-year-old girl who was shot on Sunday and a six-year-old girl who was shot on Monday morning.
Even before the weekend, Chicago Police Chief David Brown said it was going to be challenging days, probably the most challenging weekend of the year.
Brown spoke of the weekend around July 4th, the national holiday in the United States.
Brown was right.
At least 150 people lost their lives this weekend because someone aimed a gun at them.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been at least 400 shootings in the country.
And those are the preliminary figures.
Eugene "Gene" Siller is also among the fatalities at the weekend.
Police found him with a gunshot wound to the head at the Pinetree Country Club in Georiga state.
Two other people were shot there.
The shooter (s) have not yet been identified and are on the run, reported the regional newspaper "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" on Monday, citing the police.
The President of the US Golf Association PGA, Jim Richerson, said on Twitter "heartbroken about the senseless murder" of Siller.
Deadly gun violence occurs again and again in the United States.
Last year, more than 43,000 people died from firearms, including suicides, nationwide, according to the Gun Violence Archive
US President Joe Biden condemned gun violence as an "epidemic" and "international disgrace" last month.
Biden had recently decided to tighten the rules of the very loose gun law, but he would need the approval of Congress for more far-reaching reforms.
There, legislative proposals fail time and again due to resistance from the conservative Republicans.
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