Currents News Staff
The trauma from mass shootings in America is spreading. In a single weekend, as many as 10 mass shootings took place nationwide with 15 dead total.
The mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee spoke out about the shooting that took place in a nightclub where 14 people were wounded and three dead.
“I’m not trying to take away anybody’s Second Amendment rights,” said Mayor Tim Kelly. “But I think we can agree there are common sense approaches here.”
At a Phoenix strip mall, a gunman killed one person and eight others were shot and wounded. One eyewitness said she heard more than 100 gunshots.
“A group of people that just started running in every direction,” the witness said.
Shooters opened fire at high school graduation parties, in both South Carolina and Texas. People ran for cover at a funeral outside a Kentucky church and in Philadelphia multiple shooters fired into a crowd, leaving three dead.
In Washington, Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy says the time for common sense gun laws is now.
“I’m more confident than ever that we’re going to get there,” Sen. Murphy said, “but I’m also more anxious about failure this time around.”
One of the proposals on the table includes increasing the age to buy a semi-automatic rifle. Both the Buffalo and Uvalde shooters bought their AR-15 style weapons at 18.
“There is interest in taking a look at that age range, 18 to 21,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, “and doing what is necessary to make sure that we aren’t giving a weapon to anybody that has during their younger years a mental health history, a juvenile record.”