Why the hell can’t America end this deadly gun violence?

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Police respond to the scene of a mass shooting at a Walmart store in Chesapeake.

One felt the same back in May, when 19 students and a member of the teaching staff were killed an an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in what became the third deadliest school shooting in the nation’s history.

How could another community be irrevocably torn apart by such senseless violence, barely a week or so after 10 Black people were shot and killed in Buffalo, New York.

In addition, another 24,000 people killed themselves with firearms, bringing a total of 44,000 Americans who lost their lives to gun violence, according to statistics from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

In my time in the US, I’ve covered at least four major mass shootings – Virginia Tech in 2007, the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015, the Pulse Nightclub Shooting in Orlando in 2016 and the attack at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, in 2019.

Just as little changed when a gunman killed 60 people in Las Vegas in 2017, or attacked Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February 2018.

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