There have been gun killings in 43 of the 50 U.S. states in the two weeks since the Texas school shooting.
More than 650 incidents have killed 730 people since May 24, according to the Armed Violence Archive.
Twenty-three of those who died were children, more than the total who died in Uvalde, and 66 were teenagers.
The figures provide a deeply troubling context for Capitol Hill politicians as they struggle to find common ground on how, or even whether, to reform U.S. gun laws.
Politicians will hear testimony from parents and survivors of the school shooting in Uvalde two weeks ago.
Witnesses include 11-year-old Miah Cerrillo, who was smeared with the blood of her dead friend. She was killed to survive.
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The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing is titled “The Urgent Need to Address the Outbreak of Armed Violence” and comes as Republican and Democratic politicians remain divided over how far they should change. weapons laws.
This graph of daily gun deaths shows that Uvalde’s day was not even exceptional in the United States: only four days have passed since the shooting in which fewer gun deaths occurred than on May 24th.
Most incidents involve the death of a person, often after climbing a fight on the street or in situations of domestic violence, or at the hands of the police.
For example, on the same day as the shooting at Robb Elementary School, a 15-year-old boy was killed by a 19-year-old boy after a fight outside a home in Akron, Ohio.
In Mobile, Alabama, a 24-year-old man shot and killed his father, 61. In Jersey City, New Jersey, a 59-year-old man was killed by police after firing a gun on his partner, and In Atlanta, Georgia, a 32-year-old man killed a 31-year-old man over a gambling dispute.
This is a selection of 33 incidents on May 24 alone.
Analysis by Mark Stone, US correspondent
In America, a shooting is declared a “mass shooting” if four or more people die without the gunman. Last weekend alone, there were 12 mass shootings in the United States.
Whenever there is a particularly large one, especially if there are children, the calls for change come. And every time, so far, there are really few changes.
This time, though, something looks different. As actor Matthew McConaughey said at the White House on Tuesday: “We are in a window of opportunity right now that we have not been before. A window where it looks like real change, real change can happen.”
McConaughey’s request for reform from the White House press room was powerful. At one point he hit the podium with excitement. The actor grew up in Uvalde, Texas. Are your words just illusions?
At the heart of the debate is how to balance the rights of the nation’s Second Amendment to bear arms with the need to control how easy it is for people to get them.
Do AR-15 military-style assault rifles need to be on sale to anyone? Yes, say responsible gun enthusiasts; it only limits who can get them.
Should the age of sale be increased? In many states, you have to be 21 years old to buy a gun, but you can get an AR-15 at 18.
What about “red flag” laws? This would allow police, family members and co-workers to apply to a court to temporarily remove a gun from a person they believe may be a threat.
Beyond the constitutional law that many Americans resort to in the arms debate, another critical issue is influencing the debate. There is a great deal of distrust of law enforcement. Instead of relying on the police to defend them, many believe that self-defense with their own weapons is vital. It is a problem aggravated by the poor police response to the shooting of Uvalde.
This is a country divided on so many issues, and yet, on arms, public opinion polls suggest that there is some degree of public agreement on the need for change and reform.
But politicians remain deeply rooted, and at Capitol Hill, the arithmetic to precipitate radical reform is not there.
Mass shootings from Uvalde
But since Uvalde there have also been 34 incidents of mass shootings in the US, where four or more people have been killed or injured in an incident.
These 34 mass attacks have occurred in 17 different states, with 161 injured and 35 killed. There have been three new incidents in Texas alone since the Uvalde shooting.
In the first six months of 2022 there were almost 250 mass shootings, a rate similar to the previous year.
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