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11. People were killed in 48

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hours in mass shootings Across America.

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It's likely to get worse

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by Josiah Bates. Shootings

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across the country, this weekend could be

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a preview for a violent summer.

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I had experts Community leaders,

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and police are warning from

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Chattanooga Tennessee, to Philadelphia to

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Saginaw Michigan. At least 11

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people were While another 60

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were injured and mass shootings during the

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first weekend in June, any

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given year the summer months are usually

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when gun violence is at it's worst

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and the country unfortunately we're

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likely to see more of this thomas

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apps thomas senior fellow with the council

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on criminal justice criminal nonpartisan

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research organization tells time arguing

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that the kinds of mass shootings that

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occurred over the weekend could continue

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as the summer days and weeks begin

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the gun violence archive which

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is a nonprofit that collects gun

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violence data in the country defines

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a mass shooting as an incident where

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four or more victims are so so

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far there have been two hundred forty seven

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mass shootings this year and

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thirteen over the weekend there

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have been nearly nineteen thousand deaths as

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a result of firearms in the us

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which includes more than eighty three hundred

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homicides as of june six

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the vast majority of these gun deaths get

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little or no public attention

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unlike the mass shootings and ivaldi texas

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and which a gunman killed nineteen children

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and to teachers at an elementary school

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on may twenty fourth and buffalo

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new york where ten black people

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were killed at a supermarket philadelphia

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shooting was an exception because it happened

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in a popular entertainment district on

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south street on saturday there

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was reportedly an altercation between at

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least two men before shots

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were fired a video circulating

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online shows one man punching another

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before the shooting started three

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p we're kill and another twelve

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were injured at least five guns

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were used in the incident according to police

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indicating that there were multiple shooters

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two suspects were arrested on monday

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the chattanooga two people were killed and

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fourteen were wounded in a shooting outside

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of a nightclub early sunday morning one

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other person died after being hit by a car

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while trying to flee the scene no

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one has been arrested saginaw

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michigan three people were killed early

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sunday morning including a seven

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months pregnant woman though the baby was

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later delivered and survived two

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others were injured mass shootings

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in arizona georgia and south carolina

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over the weekend resulted in three more

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dad and nine more injured

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as at puts it there

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isn't one gun violence problem

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in the country there are four suicides

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community gun violence domestic gun

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violence and mass shootings experts

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community leaders and activists have consistently

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pointed to the stress of the pandemic as

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being a driving force behind

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the surge in violence over the last two

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years i think that our institutions

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have not yet fully recovered from the pandemic

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abscess in addition the

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social unrest that followed the murder

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of george floyd lead to divisions

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among those who wants to reform defund

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or abolished the police and those

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who defend law enforcement at all costs

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while the funding has not actually

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happened across the country there is

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a belief among some community activists

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that police have taken a step back

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from their responsibilities as a result

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of the attention on police killings however

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there is some consensus on several

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steps that cities and communities can take

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right now to address the community gun violence

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problem this includes things

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like identifying exactly where

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the violence happens policing

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strategically investing and anti

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violence programs and thoughtfully

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engaging with those who are at a high

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risk of engaging and violence that

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all of that said guns remain

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in the streets as well i'm

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worried than as people go out more

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because of the pandemic easing and

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because of the warm weather we're

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going to have another very violent summer

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so i'm concerned about it up sas

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there's been a point of emphasis on addressing

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the root causes of gun violence particularly

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community gun violence and implementing

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the long term solutions to it violence

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is concentrated in these poor communities of

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color if we want to save the most

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lives we need to reduce shootings

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and killings and these neighborhoods access