Two weeks on from the tragic murder of 19 children and two staff at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, a special committee has been launched at the US House of Representatives to investigate. Sky News looks at the scale of gun violence that has happened in the country since then.
Wednesday 8 June 2022 03:34, UKThere have been gun killings in 43 of the 50 US states in the two weeks since the Texas school shooting.
The witnesses will include 11-year-old Miah Cerrillo who smeared her dead friend's blood on herself. She played dead to survive.The hearing by the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee is titled 'The Urgent Need to Address the Gun Violence Epidemic' and comes as Republican and Democratic politicians remain divided over the extent to which gun laws should be changed.
In Mobile, Alabama, a 24-year-old man shot dead his 61-year-old father. In Jersey City, New Jersey, a 59-year-old was killed by police after pulling a gun on his partner, and in Atlanta, Georgia, a 32-year-old killed a 31-year-old over a gambling dispute.In America, a shooting is declared a"mass shooting" if four or more people are killed not including the gunman. Last weekend alone there were 12 mass shootings across the US.
At the heart of the debate is how to balance the nation’s Second Amendment rights to bear arms with the need to control how easy it is for people to get hold of them.
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