US flag on the building of the US Embassy in Geneva. File photoWASHINGTON, Jul 5 About 200 people died in the United States in gun incidents over the holiday weekend, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Friday 2 July to Tuesday 5 July there were 414 such episodes. About 542 people were injured, 198 died, including two children and 10 teenagers, the portal cites statistics.Media: detainee due to shooting in the USA was a rapper without a clear ideology weekend. In the city of Philadelphia, police officers were injured — an attacker opened fire in a place where residents watched a festive fireworks. A shooting at a holiday parade in Highland Park in suburban Chicago, Illinois, killed six people and injured at least 24. The 22-year-old man fired what was believed to be an assault rifle. Commenting on the tragedy there, US President Joe Biden promised not to give up in the fight against the «epidemic of armed violence», acknowledging that despite the most significant change in gun laws in 30 years, much remains to be done. New gun control regulations passed by Congress and signed by the president are designed to keep the United States safer and reduce gun violence. The bill, in particular, tightens checks on potential gun buyers between the ages of 18 and 21, encourages states to adopt regulations that allow persons deemed dangerous to society to be denied possession of handguns and rifles, and funds school safety and youth counseling programs. The problem of armed violence has once again become the focus of attention of the US authorities after two tragedies in May — an armed attack on a supermarket in Buffalo, where 10 people were killed, and a mass shooting at the Uvalde elementary school, where the perpetrator killed 19 children and two teachers.
Public shooting incidents in the US in 2022
