Homicides in the United States have risen to unprecedented levels

Washington-Sana

Terror and panic prevailed among Americans as a result of the massive proliferation of weapons, especially in the hands of school students, as official data revealed that firearm murders in the United States had risen to unprecedented levels.

Sky News quoted the Armed Violence Archive as saying: The United States ended the year 2021 with 693 mass shootings, while the previous year witnessed 611 incidents and 2019 witnessed (417) incidents.

The latest data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also revealed that firearm homicides in 2020 increased by 35 percent compared to 2019 when there were 19,350 firearm homicides in the United States in 2020.

According to Education Week, an organization that monitors education in the United States, about 119 school shootings have occurred since the organization began tracking this type of incident.

The organization's statistics indicated that since the beginning of this year until now, a shooting has led to injuries or deaths in 27 schools, and 27 people were killed in those incidents, including 24 students, in addition to three school employees, while 40 others were injured.

The statistic indicated that last year witnessed the highest level of accidents since the organization started its database, as 34 such incidents were recorded in educational institutions, and in 2020, there were ten shootings, and both 2019 and 2018 recorded (24) shootings. .

And 21 people were killed in a shooting incident yesterday inside an elementary school in Ovaldi, Texas, USA.

This incident is added to the series of shooting incidents in the United States, which has become a common occurrence, which observers attribute to the spread of a culture of violence in American society and the ease of possession of individual weapons.

The incident comes just ten days after a shooting at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, that killed ten people.

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