2023-08-27 01:38:50
Another shooting in the United States. Several people died after shootings took place on Saturday in a store in Jacksonville, announced the mayor of this large city in northern Florida, without giving a precise toll.
“Several deaths” are to be deplored, said the elected official, quoted by local media. According to the chain WJXT, the suspect died after shooting at cars and barricading himself in a Dollar General store. Police rapid response teams (SWAT) had been deployed.
An eternal problem
The United States has more individual weapons than inhabitants, partly because of the ease with which Americans have access to them. One in three adults owns at least one weapon and almost one in two adults lives in a household where there is a weapon.
The consequence of this proliferation is the very high rate of firearm deaths in the United States, unmatched by that of other developed countries.
Friday night, two women were shot and injured in Chicago (north) while attending a White Sox game, a Major League Baseball team in North America. And on Saturday morning, gunfire injured seven people at a Caribbean festival in Boston, without causing death.
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