Every recent American mass shooting has been followed by a political play that has become all too common: Democrats demand additional gun control laws, such as banning assault-style weapons, and note how the US is unique among industrialised nations in its high levels of gun violence. Republicans argue that any gun control measures would be ineffective because the US Constitution upholds the right to own firearms.

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In America, a 6-year-old girl was shot after her basketball rolled into her neighbour's yard, a 16-year-old was shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, a cheerleader was shot for almost getting into the wrong car, a 20-year-old was killed because her car got into the wrong driveway. What's wrong with America?

Gravitas: 6-year-old American girl shot by her neighbour after her basketball rolls into his yard

In the South African city of Pietermaritzburg's KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) region, attackers shot and killed 10 members of the same family on Friday (April 21), that consisted of seven women and three men, according to police.

South Africa: Family of 10 ambushed, killed in mass shooting

An Indian man pursuing higher education in the United States has died of gunshot wounds while working at a fuel station. The 24-year-old, as per a PTI report, was pursuing a Master's Degree in the US.

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A furious neighbour shot a 6-year-old girl and her parents in North Carolina on Tuesday night when a basketball rolled into his yard. According to the kid's relatives and neighbours, the man was shot and a 6-year-old daughter was injured after youngsters went to recover a basketball that had rolled into the yard of a neighbour.

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Menace of mass shooting has reared its ugly head once again in the United States. At least four were killed and nine wounded at a bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky on the 10th of April. The attacker, a 23-year-old employee of the bank, livestreamed the attack over the internet. He was later shot down by the responding law enforcement officials. Bafflingly, Monday's mass shooting in Louisville was the 146th of the year. In addition to this, two more attacks took place over the past week in the United States. Three were injured and shoppers evacuated from a Delaware mall on 8th of April and four people were shot outside a funeral home in the capital, Washington D.C. on 11th of April. What explains these frequent mass shootings?

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There have been 160 shootings in the United States of America this year itself. The topic of gun violence is deeply divisive in America. Gun politics within American politics is defines by two primary opposing ideologies about civilian gun ownership mainly those who advocate for gun control and those that advocate for gun rights.

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A man named Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr. has been arrested in Austin, Texas for shooting two cheerleaders after one of them mistakenly got into the wrong car. According to a police statement, the incident took place in the parking lot of HEB - a supermarket chain.

US: Man shoots two cheerleaders after one mistakenly got into wrong car

In yet another incident of gun violence in the state of the United States after a black teenager was shot by a homeowner after we went in a wrong house and rang the doorbell. The homeowner opened the door and shot the boy.

Gun violence in US: At least 160 shooting incidents in 2023 as mass shootings on rise

The gun epidemic in the U.S. has become deadlier than ever. Almost 1 in 5 adults has had a family member killed by a gun. Survivors of shootings too are left with wounds that never heal. Watch them share their stories. Watch WION Wideangle.

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110 Americans die every day from gun violence. Did you know that there are more guns than people in the U.S.? There have been at least 146 mass shooting incidents so far this year. Why is gun violence escalating?

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Nashville Covenant School shooting: 6 killed Louisville bank shooting: 5 killed Over 200 killed in 146+ U.S. mass shootings so far in 2023 WION Wideangle decodes gun violence crisis in U.S.

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Five people are dead, including a gunman, and eight were injured after a shooting Monday morning at a downtown Louisville bank. Watch the video to know more.

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A grand jury in the US state of Virginia indicted the mother of a six-year-old boy, on Monday (April 10) after he shot his teacher, earlier this year. The incident took place, in January when a boy shot his elementary school teacher in the city of Newport News, United States.

US: Mother of six-year-old who shot teacher charged with child neglect

Three people were hurt in a shooting at a mall in the state of Delaware. Police are investigating the shooting incident at Christiana Mall, which claims that three people were shot at in the food court of this mall. People have been evacuated, and the mall has been closed.

US: Three injured in shooting incident in Delaware

US gun violence has stoked widespread protests across the United States in recent days, after as many as 9,800 people reportedly died due to gun violence in just the first three months of 2023, a figure that also includes self-inflicted deaths by suicide apart from regular acts of mass gun violence.

US: Tennessee House expels two Black Democrats for gun violence protests, spares White lawmaker

A well-known US YouTuber who finds delight in making videos in which he exhibits unusual behaviour to scare others plans to continue making them, despite the fact that one of his targets allegedly shot him close to death.

US: Virginia YouTuber shot in the stomach during prank video

Following the latest school shooting in a Nashville school, that left six people dead, including three children, thousands of people protested outside the Tennessee State Capitol on Thursday, calling for more stringent gun control laws. Earlier, a heavily-armed shooter opened fire, killing 3 adults aged around 60, and 3 children-all of them just nine years old. The Nashville district attorney called it the ultimate crime - when school children and caregivers are the victims of senseless gun violence.

Nashville School Shooting: Demonstrators protest against gun violence in US

The Nashville shooting victims included three children and three adults. Nine-year-old Evelyn Dieckhaus, 61-year-old member of the facilities/kitchen staff Mike Hill, 60-year-old head of the school Katherine Koonce, 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, nine-year-old daughter of a pastor Hallie Scruggs and nine-year-old William Kinney.

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Barely a day after the deadly Nashville school shooting in the US, a police officer in Huntsville, Alabama lost his life while another remains hospitalised in critical condition while they were responding to a shooting call.

No letup in US gun violence: 1 police officer shot dead, 1 critically injured in Alabama

U.S. is still reeling under the gun violence epidemic. President Joe Biden followed the Nashville mass shooting with a press conference which he started with a joke! Has Biden lost sympathy for all the lives lost in mass shootings? Molly Gambhir reports.

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School shooting in the US city of Nashville, Tennessee laid bare how blatantly the gun laws are being flouted in the country. An armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers at Nashville school.

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