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The number of weapons in the hands of US residents continues to grow
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In 2020, 43,000 people died from gunshot wounds in the United States.
In the United States of America, police recorded 915 shooting incidents in the past week from July 17 to 23. About this on Friday, July 25, informs TV channel NBC News with reference to the organization Gun Violence Archive.
It is noted that in this way in the United States, crimes related to the use of weapons occurred every 12 minutes.
“As a result of these incidents, at least 430 people were killed, and 1,007 were injured,” reports Gun Violence Archive.
It is noted that in 2020 43 thousand people died as a result of gunshot wounds in the United States. In 2021, more than 25 thousand deaths due to shooting have already been recorded.
IN Gun Violence Archive emphasize that the total number of crimes and incidents related to shooting, as well as the death toll in these incidents, has gone up over the past year.
In the United States, according to the organization’s estimates, there were 393 million weapons in the hands of citizens at the end of 2018.
“Last year alone, US residents bought a record number of firearms. Between March and August 2020, five million people in the country purchased their first pistol or rifle. Black Americans have become particularly active buyers – the number of gun owners among them has grown by 58.2%, ”the organization’s representatives say.
In the United States, the right to possess and carry weapons is guaranteed by the second constitutional amendment.
We will remind, on July 11 in the American state of Texas, near the city of El Paso, there was a shooting, during which one person was killed and several were injured.
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