[BBC NEWS] Why number of US mass shootings has risen sharply

 

BBC News reports: California has woken up to news of three mass shootings this week. On Monday, a gunman opened fire at two plant nurseries in Half Moon Bay, killing seven and injuring one person.

A few hours later, another gunman opened fire 41 miles (65km) away at a petrol station in Oakland, injuring seven and killing one person.

Then on Saturday, 11 people who had gathered to dance died on the eve of Lunar New Year in Monterey Park near Los Angeles.

If it feels like these incidents are becoming more frequent in the US, that is because they are.

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13 Comments

  1. January 28, 2023

    Hello and good morning my people. Well I can’t believe that both Democrats and Republican administrations goes around the World and lecture other Governments about treating their citizens properly. A mass shooting is when two or more people are shot in a single incident and everyday there are mass shootings in America but they can’t come up with a plan to stop such incidents. The Polititions are receiving campaign donations from the gun manufacturers so they won’t pass laws to curtail the availability of gun in American. The people who are being shot and only important to their families so I will assume that if the politicians or their families were the ones being injured then they would do something about gun within society.

  2. Chameleon
    January 27, 2023

    Here are three major pandemic (not COVID) type reasons: Easy access to firearms and ammunition, a proliferation of inciteful rhetoric by political extremists and a worrisome explosion in mental illnesses.

  3. Lin clown
    January 27, 2023

    You are 200% correct ds.The most dirty and stinking human being I have ever seen is on the #2 train in the Bronx.I don’t know how a person so dirty and stinking could still be alive.The police had to be called to get that person( a black man)off the train.I have seen people begging in the middle of winter in New York.

  4. Ibo France
    January 26, 2023

    That question is a no brainer. In the U.S. the most sophisticated guns are easily accessible to Tom, Dick, Harry and Betty.

    Guns are instruments of death. Should we expect anything different in the U.S. where guns are treated like gold trophies.

  5. January 26, 2023

    Admin – give us the sad Dominica news, we have all been waiting for after his long, long battle. Let you be the announcer.

  6. January 26, 2023

    Ask Francisco Telemaque. Most of them in Los Angeles. He out there blaming Skerrit for crimes in Dominica and the mass shootings are happening in his home town, LA, with no end in sight. America the richest country in the world with lots of poverty, some folks not having a decent, healthy meal, none or very little education, very little parenthood, most of them raised on the dangerous streets of America. Is he going to blame Roosevelt Skerrit?

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    • Ibo France
      January 27, 2023

      Typical diehard buffoon of the Roosevelt’s administration. This is their flawed thinking. They believe by pinpointing the ills of other countries will absolve the mammoth failures and incompetence of Roosevelt and his goons.

      Instead of comparing Dominica to countries around the world with the best practices and the most robust economies, they look for countries and their underperforming sectors.

      These vagabonds like bs dim other countries light hoping Dominicans light will shine brighter.

    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      January 28, 2023

      ds, all this shooting even to that of last night in a private party, where I believe three are killed, and some critically injured and taken to hospital; are caused by Roosevelt Skerrit that damn corrupted crook!
      And you know how he cause these shooting, and murder?
      You see, the Roosevelt is the devil himself:
      Hahahahahahahahahahah!
      He is the orchestrator of all manner of evil on earth, he like blood, and death, and so in the last few days he became thirsty for blood, and he is out there on a rampage murdering people.
      He, you and Elizabeth out there flying around seeking to destroy people.
      Now as for that idiot talking about Ukraine, if that person was not a damn fool, he/she without an understanding about what Putin has done to defenseless women and children, in the process of wanting to dominate another free democratic country, that idiot would simply shut up!
      But as usual all low life poverty-stricken Dominica scums must find themselves on the lower side of the equation.

  7. me
    January 26, 2023

    Ask Biden about it…His concern is to arm Ukraine with M1 Abrams tank, in a war Ukraine can never, ever win, except on Western media, BBC, CNN, ABS, etc, etc, etc.
    It will get worse before it gets better…!
    My condolences to all the victims!!

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    • Ibo France
      January 27, 2023

      Should the world sit idly by, do nothing, as Putin slaughters babies, children, old ladies at will? What message will that send to China, North Korea, Iran, and other despotic regimes around the globe?

      I don’t usually support the US foreign policies for they are inconsistent. They usually use their economic might to destroy the economies of countries like Venezuela and Cuba whose political ideology differs from theirs.

    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      January 28, 2023

      You are nothing more than scum, you are a bit of scum of the earth!

      Concern yourself, with the backwardness and poverty which overwhelms Dominica, and the volume of crime taking place in Dominica, in a place with less than thirty thousand residences.
      Some of you run off your mouth on America, and what is taking place here, yet you fraught on both side of your mouth and yearn to come here.

      Many of you when you come here illegal, and even some who are legal have a hard time surviving because you lack the ability to function, because you lack education, and are mentally blocked from making progress.
      You all hate America, and Americans; nevertheless, had it not been for containers loaded with barrels of food shipped to Dominica by some Dominicans living here and in the U.S Virgin Islands some of you would starve, and die from hunger.
      What has Russia offered you?
      You support Putin, a damn murderer, and talk against Biden who is helping to save innocent lives in Ukraine!
      You sick!

      • Man bite dogs
        January 30, 2023

        Francisco, I am not a fan of Ibo, he was just speaking the truth and how things are, he is also right about American foreign policies they do not have a clue nor do they understand the outside world, for that reason I agree with with Ibo France.

    • Just Asking
      January 29, 2023

      You mean like Iraq? I wonder who did that and have now ‘purchased’ this war. 8-O

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