On April 12, sixty-two-year-old Frank James had set off smoke grenades and fired a handgun 33 times on a crowded New York City subway train. The attack left 29 people injured, including 10 who were shot.
On Saturday, ten people were killed and another three wounded when a mass shooting erupted at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, that authorities allege was a "racially motivated hate crime" carried out by a heavily armed white teenager who fired a barrage of 50 shots outside and inside the supermarket.
The gunman, eighteen-year-old Payton S Gendron left behind a racist screed, donned military-style clothing and body armor, and livestreamed the attack.
A day later, at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, southern California, one person was killed and four others were critically wounded by 68-year-old David Chou before congregants overpowered and hogtied him.
Year after year, it is the same old story. Gun violence is very commonplace, and is an American phenomenon.
Note: Only the Buffalo shooting is classified as a mass shooting. FYI, a mass shooting occurs when a shooter kills at least four victims – not including the shooter. And it excludes gang killings, domestic violence, or terrorist acts sponsored by an organization.
In 2021, there were 693 mass shootings, per the Gun Violence Archive. The year before saw 611. And 2019 had 417.
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