![]() ![]() The total number of child gun deaths was 1,680 in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive. There have already been 16 shootings at US schools in the first months of 2023, and 405 kids have been killed by guns in America. That means this cycle of gun violence remains sad, predictable and permanent. ![]() And there’s reason to think state gun control laws could be in jeopardy. There’s nothing the new GOP-controlled Congress is likely to do to prevent mass shootings. There’s little more the president can do about mass shootings. Following the midterm election, Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in January, ensuring no new gun restrictions are likely to be considered at the national level.ĭespite that action by the previous Congress, and due to the action by the Supreme Court, the basic thrust of that story from last year holds as the US grapples with the aftermath of Monday’s Nashville, Tennessee, elementary school shooting in which three 9-year-old children and three adults were killed.That same month, the Supreme Court invalidated a decades-old New York law governing gun licenses, pulling the rug out from under gun restrictions enacted in states and setting off a scramble to challenge these state laws. ![]()
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