In 2020, many Americans have experienced significantly higher levels of violence. Gun violence and gun crime has, in particular, rose drastically, with over 19,000 people killed in shootings and firearm-related incidents in 2020. That’s the highest death toll in over 20 years, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), an online site that collects gun violence data, and the Britannia Group’s non-partisan site procon.org.
This total includes victims
of homicides and unintentional deaths but does not include gun suicides. And
despite there being no “large-scale” shootings in 2020, the number of mass
shootings—which are classified as an incident in which four or more people are
shot and injured or killed—has actually risen, drastically, to over 600, the
most in the past 5 years and a nearly 50% increase in 2019’s total.
Homicides increased by 36%
across 28 major U.S. cities—including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit and
Philadelphia—between June and October 2020, when compared to the same time
period last year.
In
Chicago, 3,237 shooting incidents have occurred as of Dec. 27, an increase of
over 50% from the 2,120 incidents reported in the same time frame in 2019. The
city also saw a 55% increase in homicides. New York City has had 1,824 shooting
victims this year as of Dec. 20, compared to 896 in the same time period last
year, and a 39% increase in homicides year on year—the New York Times reporting that 2020 has been the
city’s deadliest in “nearly a decade.” (Local news reports out of Philadelphia and Charlotte, N.C., meanwhile, confirm that the cities have each seen the most homicides
this year since the 1990s.)
Friends, it seems to me the world is approaching end times. This wicked world is full of wickedness and mayham.
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