US Passes 600 Mass Shootings for Third Consecutive Year

that there were approximately 393 million firearms in civilian hands in the country, or 120.5 firearms per 100 people.

That number is much higher now, given the soaring increase in gun sales in the past few years.

US President Joe Biden in July said that a flood of guns was turning American communities into “killing fields” and vowed to reinstate a ban on assault rifles.

The remarks came in a White House ceremony to mark new gun control legislation that he signed on June 25.

“This has taken too long, with too much of a trail of bloodshed and carnage,” Biden said.

“The past many years, across our schools, places of worship, workplaces, stores, music festivals, nightclubs, and so many other everyday places, they have turned into killing fields.”

Source: Agencies (edited by Al-Manar English Website)