culture, with 4 in 10 adults saying they own a firearm, according to a June 2021 Pew Research Center survey. France was a far-distant second with eight mass shootings, leading to 179 deaths. A recent peer-reviewed study, published in March in the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, confirms that.įrom 1998 to 2019, researchers said, the United States accounted for 73 percent, or 101 of 139 mass shootings, that accounted for 816 deaths. Mass shootings don't happen with near the frequency, or even much at all, in other developed countries, according to Giffords and other groups that aim to stem gun violence. In the starkest and darkest sense possible, the killings of 48-year-old Irma Garcia and the 19 children - for whom hiding under the desks and playing dead is as rote a skill as reciting the ABCs - are all-American, too. The entire family, they're all great people. The Garcias were an ' all-American family,' John Martinez told The Washington Post of his aunt, uncle and cousins. Custom-Painted Caskets Remember Kids Killed At Texas Elementary School.Slain Uvalde, Texas, Teacher's Husband 'Died Of A Broken Heart'.
