Five people were killed and two dozen others wounded in a pair of weekend mass shootings in the United States, the latest in a string of deadly gun...
Pedestrians walk past bullet holes in the window of a store front on South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 5, 2022, the day after a mass shooting left three dead and several injuredFive people were killed and two dozen others wounded in a pair of weekend mass shootings in the United States, the latest in a string of deadly gun attacks that have left lawmakers scrambling to tackle the crisis.
In Philadelphia, two men and a woman were killed when multiple people opened fire on a crowd at a popular nightlife area, Police Inspector D.F. Pace told reporters. The pre-dawn incident occurred near a nightclub in a downtown section of Chattanooga, a city of 180,000.Such gun violence has become almost commonplace in America, but the shock felt over recent mass shootings at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas have spurred ardent cries for action.
"I think the possibility of success is better than ever before," he told CNN."But I think the consequences of failure for our entire democracy are more significant than ever." "Once it started, I didn't think it was going to stop," he told the newspaper."There was guttural screaming. I just heard screams."
The letter, running as a full-page ad in the newspaper, endorsed an expansion of background checks, raising the age to buy guns to 21, and creating"red flag" laws intended to keep guns from people deemed to be at risk of violence.
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