Two mass shootings at crowded public places in Texas and Ohio in less than 24 hours claimed at least 29 lives and left scores injured, a shocking carnage even in a country accustomed to gun violence.
In the Texas border city of El Paso, a gunman opened fire Saturday morning in a shopping area packed with thousands of people during the busy back-to-school season, killing 20 and injuring more than two dozen, many of them critically. The shooting was being investigated as a possible hate crime as authorities worked to confirm whether a racist, anti-immigrant screed posted online shortly beforehand was written by the man arrested in the attack on the 680,000-resident border city.
Just hours later in Dayton, Ohio, a gunman wearing body armor and carrying extra magazines opened fire in a popular nightlife area, killing nine and injuring at least 26 people.
The Saturday shooting in El Paso and the Sunday shooting in Dayton were the 21st and 22nd mass killings of 2019 in the U.S., according to the AP/USA Today/Northeastern University mass murder database that tracks homicides where four or more people killed — not including the offender.
Including the two latest attacks, 125 people had been killed in the 2019 shootings.
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The FBI, local and state law enforcement are working together in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio. Information is rapidly being accumulated in Dayton. Much has already be learned in El Paso. Law enforcement was very rapid in both instances. Updates will be given throughout the day!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2019
….Melania and I send our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the great people of Texas.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2019
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The words of a great man, the late Bob Grant ring in my ears…
The world is sick and getting sicker .
2 Trump supporters.
Not a coincidence
“NATION SHOCKED”
totally shocked! I thought after doing nothing after the last mass shooting, and the one before that and the one before that …. they would just stop
I can’t believe that it happened again, its so unexpected
2 Bernie Sunders supporters.
Not a coincidence
jackk, what are you talking about? What makes you think either of them are Trump supporters?
How about the president and republican’s supporting universal background checks and condemning white nationalist violence? That would be a big change up from just doing nothing.
jackk,
You are totally wrong. Connor Betts the Dayton shooter was a well known Trump hater. The El Paso shooter was a die hard progressive with hard line Leftist ideology.
Who needs background checks? Doesn’t everyone need a semi automatic rifle?
This is the only country in the world with this many mass shooting incidents. But let’s just keep “sending our thoughts and prayers”, lower the flags to half staff, that’ll solve everything.
jackk, Dayton shooter was a pro-Satan leftist who supported Warren, Sanders, Antifa And Communism, in other words: typical modern Democrat.
“Universal background checks” means you can’t so much as lend your gun to someone else, even to a family member, without first paying a licensed gun dealer to run a check on them. Even handing someone a gun to hold is a “transfer” that would require a check first.
There’s a reason private sales are currently exempt from background checks — individual sellers have no ability to run such checks. For obvious reasons you can’t just call the FBI and ask them about someone else’s background. Only licensed dealers can do it. So making individual sellers run checks means they must first find a dealer willing to do it for them, and pay whatever the dealer charges for this “service”, and then wait for the results to come back, re-contact the buyer and arrange to meet them again, and then make the sale. This is an unreasonable burden to put on someone who is not a dealer but just wants to sell a weapon that they’re no longer using.
Imagine what would happen if such a burden were put on someone wanting to have an abortion! The courts would strike it down immediately. Or what if such a requirement was placed on publishing a book or a newspaper!