United States: at least six killed in two shootings …

America is living a epidemic gun violence, as defined by President Joe Biden, with alarming frequency of mass shootings in different parts of the country. The last episodes had room this sunday at states of Wisconsin and Texas, which resulted in the death of six people.

In the morning hours, the news of a attack in a bar in Kenosha (Wisconsin), or three people lost their lives and two others were injured. The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that the event took place at the Somers House Tavern, around 00:42 local time. The author of the shots is wanted by the authorities, who described the incident as “specific and isolated”.

A few hours later, a shortly after noon, three more people were shot dead in the city of Austin, Texas. Local police said via Twitter that there had been “an active shooting incident” at Great Hills Trail and Rain Creek Parkway.

During a press conference, Authorities have identified the alleged assailant as Stephen Nicholas Broderick, 41, still at large. They also pointed out that the alleged perpetrator could be a former law enforcement officer, but they clarified that these data are still under investigation.

During the conference, they insisted on the dangerousness of the suspect and warned that he was armed and that he could take hostages.

Uncontrolled mass shootings

According to figures from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a non-profit project that tracks gun violence in this North American country, so far in 2021 there have been 150 mass shootings, which defines them as those in which at least four people are killed or injured by bullet holes.

In the year 2020, there were a total of 610 such incidents in the United States, up from 417 in 2019, according to this source.

Only in the past month, 45 “mass shootings” have taken place since March 16, said the television network CNN.

The gun attacks of the past few weeks have resulted in Many voices among Democrats, including President Joe Biden himself, call for a change in the law so that there is greater control over this type of weaponry.

However, there is little chance that major legislation on the issue will pass in Congress, where Democrats – the president’s party – have such a narrow majority that they would have to convince at least 10 Republicans to pass it.