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15 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
In just one 6-hour span over the weekend, mass shootings in 4 major U.S. cities reportedly left 38 people wounded and 6 dead. The shootings occurred in Cleveland, Chicago, Austin, and Savannah between late Friday night and early Saturday morning
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have already been more than 270 mass shootings in 2021, and at least 8,700 lives have been claimed to gun violence this year overall.
James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor at Northeastern University, told the Associated Press that the rising number of mass shootings is worrisome.
‘We have a blend of people beginning to get out and about in public. We have lots of divisiveness. And we have more guns and warm weather,’ Fox said. ‘It’s a potentially deadly mix.’

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