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billh58

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Tue Apr 5, 2022, 01:19 PM Apr 2022

Weekend shootings: At least 13 dead, nearly 50 injured in gun violence

At least 13 people were killed and more than 40 others injured in shootings across the country this weekend, including one in Sacramento, where the police chief called the scale of violence "unprecedented" in her 27-year career there.

Six people died and 12 were injured in that incident early Sunday, which investigators believe involves multiple shooters, Police Chief Katherine Lester said. The mass shooting not far from the California State Capitol is one of the largest of the more than 120 in the US so far this year, according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive.

The GVA, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot, not including the shooter. There were, however, shootings this weekend that did not meet the definition, including one at a Norfolk, Virginia, mall which left 1 dead and 2 injured.

This weekend's violence comes just two weeks after the largest-scale US mass shooting in more than two years happened at a car show in Dumas, Arkansas, where one person died and at least 27 were injured.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/weekend-shootings-at-least-13-dead-nearly-50-injured-in-gun-violence/ar-AAVRism?li=BBnb7Kz


Just another weekend in the Home of the Free -- free to stand your ground and shoot first. Mass shootings have become commonplace while the NRA and its corporate/political whores rake in the blood money.
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