Latest mass shooting in Louisville puts America at record pace for mass shootings in 2023.

 

Flowers litter the steps of the Old National Bank in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday after the mass shooting, (John Sommers II/UPI).

America is experiencing a record pace in the amount of mass shootings with roughly once a week so far alone this year. The 17 mass shootings over 111 days so far this year have taken the lives of 88 people which has not happened in America since 2009.

The recent mass shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Ky., which left five dead and eight others injured joined a list of other notable mass shootings which include The Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tn., which left three adults and three children dead with one person injured, the Monterey Park shooting which left 11 dead and nine injured.

Along with a Sweet 16 party in Dadeville, Alabama, which left four people dead and 32 injured. The deaths of mass shootings represent only a fraction of the fatal violence that occurs in the U.S. as 54% of gun deaths are suicides while the remaining 43% are homicides. 

Yet mass murders are now happening with higher frequencies than in years past with an average of once every 6.53 days. 

Some states have tried to combat this deadly trend by imposing new guns laws. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a new law that mandated background checks to see if anyone buying a gun had a criminal record if they wanted to buy a rifle or a shotgun. 

Il Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law last year that would ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons after the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Il., which left six people dead. 

President Joe Biden has also acted by signing a milestone gun violence bill in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Tx., that would toughen background checks on younger buyers while also keeping guns away from people convicted of domestic violence crimes and strengthening red flag laws.

Despite these changes, experts and gun violence advocates decry the massive increase of gun purchases in the U.S. during the height of the pandemic and say that while these are massive steps, more needs to be done to solve this issue.




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