Now is not the time to talk about gun control (3 Viewers)

[brandon]

T&P

10 killed in Boulder shooting: Victims identified, suspect charged

Police said 10 people were killed, including an officer, after a shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.

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[samiam5211]

Three dead, 10 wounded, in Arkansas grocery store shooting, authorities say | CNN

Three people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting at a grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas, the Arkansas State Police said in a news conference Friday.

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3 dead, 10 shot in a rural part of Arkansas. The shooter was white, and it seems like most of the victims were probably black.

No idea if it was race related, but if it's not, they should hurry up and come out with the motivation. If the shooter was from Fordyce, then they probably all knew each other and it could have just been a personal dispute and other people were just collateral damage.

 

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[Optimus Prime]

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy declared gun violence a public health crisis Tuesday and called on the nation to address it with the same vigor used to reduce deaths and injuries fromtobacco and motor vehicle crashes.

The surgeon general’s advisory marked the first time the nation’s leading voice on public health — the same office that in the 1960s highlighted the lethal consequences of cigarette smoking — had issued an urgent pronouncement on deaths related to firearms. The 39-page advisory underscores the significant physical and mental toll of gun violence on communities nationwide.

Overall, deaths caused by guns rose to a three-decade high in 2021, driven by increases in homicides and suicides, the advisory says. In 2022, more than half of all gun deaths were from suicide, while 40 percent of firearms deaths were homicides.……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/26/surgeon-general-firearm-deaths/