United States: Gun Violence on the Rise with Mass Shootings

More than 25,000 Americans were killed by gun violence in the first eight months of this year, as the crisis of individual and mass shootings worsens across the United States, which has recorded 470 such incidents in 2023, according to new data.

Data issued by the American organization “Gun Violence Archive” and published on its website document a steady increase in incidents of armed violence, the latest of which was what was reported by the American media yesterday about a woman being shot in New York City, and three other people being stabbed in separate incidents in the city.

Data shows that approximately 22 children aged 17 and younger are shot every day, either on the street or at their schools.

According to the American website Axios, the astonishing rise in armed violence in American schools is casting a shadow over the daily lives of generations of young students in the United States, and is exposing children’s lives to a danger that was previously unimaginable.

The site explained that the number of victims of shootings in American schools reached a record level last year, as 273 people were killed and injured in 2022 in 303 incidents witnessed by educational institutions, which are unprecedented numbers, as the US Centers for Disease Control confirms that armed violence is the first cause of death for children and adolescents in the United States, with a rate of 19 percent of total child deaths in 2021.

Among the most prominent shooting incidents that have shaken the United States since 2018 are more than a thousand incidents that occurred inside American schools, including what happened at an elementary school in the town of Uvalde, Texas, last year, when an 18-year-old young man killed 19 students and two teachers.