Four people, including a child, were shot dead inside a home in Florida. As per reports, the suspect shot three victims inside a home, before getting shot down by the police, who were responding to a domestic violence report early Sunday morning.

As per the AP news agency, officers heard gunshots inside the home. Soon after the suspect exited and shot at officers around 2.25 am, the Orlando Police Department said in a statement.&nbsp;

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Inside the home, police found three gunshot victims, including one child. The victims were transported to the hospital where they died of their injuries, said the Orlando police.&nbsp;The suspect too died of injuries after being transported to the hospital. Identities of the suspect and the three victims are yet to be released.

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AP reports that the two unidentified officers involved in the shooting were not injured and have been placed on administrative leave.

This comes as Florida recently allowed&nbsp;residents to carry concealed guns without a permit.&nbsp;Starting July 1, Floridians who legally own a gun will be able to carry it without requiring a permit, i.e., carrying a concealed weapon in public will now no longer require any training or background checks.

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Four people, including a child, were shot dead inside a home in Florida. As per reports, the suspect shot three victims inside a home, before getting shot down by the police, who were responding to a domestic violence report early Sunday morning. As per the AP news agency, officers heard gunshots inside the home. Soon after the suspect exited and shot at officers around 2.25 am, the Orlando Police Department said in a statement. Also read | Amid spike in US gun violence, Florida teacher asks students to write their own obituaries; gets fired Inside the home, police found three gunshot victims, including one child. The victims were transported to the hospital where they died of their injuries, said the Orlando police. The suspect too died of injuries after being transported to the hospital. Identities of the suspect and the three victims are yet to be released. Also read | Amidst increasing mass shootings, Florida allows concealed guns without permit in public AP reports that the two unidentified officers involved in the shooting were not injured and have been placed on administrative leave. This comes as Florida recently allowed residents to carry concealed guns without a permit. Starting July 1, Floridians who legally own a gun will be able to carry it without requiring a permit, i.e., carrying a concealed weapon in public will now no longer require any training or background checks. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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A school teacher in Florida, United States, has been fired for asking students to write their own obituaries. Jeffrey Keene, the dismissed teacher, taught psychology at Dr Phillips high school in the Orlando area. As per a Guardian report, the assignment didn't have malicious intent, rather the teacher just wanted his students to reflect on their own lives as they participate in an active shooter drill. In Florida, a state that in recent days has been plagued by mass shootings, preparations for gun attacks have become commonplace.

Keene had assigned his 11th and 12th-grade students to write their biographical obituaries. As per the 63-year-old teacher, while giving them the assignment, he told the students, "This isn't a way to upset you or anything like that."

Talking to NBC News, Keene said "It wasn't to scare them or make them feel like they were going to die, but just to help them understand what’s important in their lives and how they want to move forward with their lives and how they want to pursue things in their journey."

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Keene, who had been hired in January and was still in his probationary period, was fired&nbsp;by the end of the day.&nbsp;He has no recourse to reverse the termination.

"If you can't talk real to them, then what's happening in this environment?" he said, adding, "in my mind, I've done nothing wrong."

Vowing to not change his teaching methods, Keene said that he hopes to find another job.

"I don't think I did anything incorrectly," Keene said. "I know hindsight is 20/20, but I honestly didn't think a 16, 17, 18-year-old would be offended or upset by talking about something we're already talking about."

However, a representative for the Orange County School District labelled the assignment "inappropriate".

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Talking to NBC, the district spokesperson said, "Dr Phillips High School families were informed that a teacher gave an inappropriate assignment about school violence. Administration immediately investigated and the probationary employee has been terminated."

In Governor Ron DeSantis' Florida, carrying a concealed weapon in public without a permit has been made legal. This, as per experts, can potentially lead to an exponential increase in shootings and gun violence, that has in recent years claimed the lives of many. Among the most heart-wrenching and notorious massacres that Florida has witnessed are the 2016 Pulse nightclub in Orlando and the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland shooting.

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A school teacher in Florida, United States, has been fired for asking students to write their own obituaries. Jeffrey Keene, the dismissed teacher, taught psychology at Dr Phillips high school in the Orlando area. As per a Guardian report, the assignment didn't have malicious intent, rather the teacher just wanted his students to reflect on their own lives as they participate in an active shooter drill. In Florida, a state that in recent days has been plagued by mass shootings, preparations for gun attacks have become commonplace. Keene had assigned his 11th and 12th-grade students to write their biographical obituaries. As per the 63-year-old teacher, while giving them the assignment, he told the students, "This isn't a way to upset you or anything like that." Talking to NBC News, Keene said "It wasn't to scare them or make them feel like they were going to die, but just to help them understand what’s important in their lives and how they want to move forward with their lives and how they want to pursue things in their journey." Also read | Amidst increasing mass shootings, Florida allows concealed guns without permit in public Keene, who had been hired in January and was still in his probationary period, was fired by the end of the day. He has no recourse to reverse the termination. "If you can't talk real to them, then what's happening in this environment?" he said, adding, "in my mind, I've done nothing wrong." Vowing to not change his teaching methods, Keene said that he hopes to find another job. "I don't think I did anything incorrectly," Keene said. "I know hindsight is 20/20, but I honestly didn't think a 16, 17, 18-year-old would be offended or upset by talking about something we're already talking about." However, a representative for the Orange County School District labelled the assignment "inappropriate". Also read | In Pics | From Nashville to Sandy Hook, deadliest US school shootings which shook the world Talking to NBC, the district spokesperson said, "Dr Phillips High School families were informed that a teacher gave an inappropriate assignment about school violence. Administration immediately investigated and the probationary employee has been terminated." In Governor Ron DeSantis' Florida, carrying a concealed weapon in public without a permit has been made legal. This, as per experts, can potentially lead to an exponential increase in shootings and gun violence, that has in recent years claimed the lives of many. Among the most heart-wrenching and notorious massacres that Florida has witnessed are the 2016 Pulse nightclub in Orlando and the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland shooting. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Amid spike in US gun violence, Florida teacher asks students to write their own obituaries; gets fired

Gun violence has turned into a leading cause of death among children and teens in the US. Gun rights, enshrined in the national constitution, are a divisive subject which gets limelight every time a mass shooting takes place. Many reasons are there behind gun violence but now researchers in the country have observed in a study that gun violence spiked on warmer days. The study was carried out by the Boston University School of Public Health and the University of Washington School of Social Work.&nbsp;

The study findings indicate that Northeast and Midwest regions in the US saw sharp increase in gun violence on days that were hotter-than-normal.

“Our study provides strong evidence that daily temperature plays a meaningful role in gun violence fluctuations,” says study senior author Dr. Jonathan Jay, assistant professor of community health sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. Dr Jay was quoted by SciTechDaily.&nbsp;

“Our study really highlights the importance of heat adaptation strategies that can be used all year, as well as a need for specific regional awareness and attention in regions where this relationship is strongest,” said study lead author Dr. Vivian Lyons as quoted by SciTechDaily.

The study has been published in the journal JAMA Network Open.

In this study, &nbsp;the researchers made use of the publicly available data from Gun Violence Archive. They analysed more than 16,000 incidents of gun violence and daily temperatures between 2015 and 2020. The researchers found that 7,973 shootings were attributable to above-average temperature.

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Gun violence&nbsp;has become so much part of daily life in the United States, the only country with more guns in private hands than people, that mass shootings rarely prompt shock and surprise. But they did in the first weeks of the year because of a sequence of events that spoke volumes of the country’s deep and deadly love affair with guns.

To explain, here is a timeline of events:

January 6 – A six-year-old boy shot and badly wounded a teacher he disliked with a 9mm handgun he carried into his school in the Virginia city of Newport News in his backpack.

January 17 – A neighbour watching his home security camera spotted a toddler wearing a diaper and waving a pistol wandering the hallway of an apartment building in the city of Beech Grove, Indiana. It’s still not clear how the student and the toddler got access to the weapons.

January 21 – A man using a submachine gun killed 11 people and wounded 10 at a dance hall in Monterey Park, near Los Angeles. The shooter, aged 72, killed himself after the vehicle in which he was fleeing was surrounded by police.

January 24 - Four people were shot dead at a mushroom farm in the Northern Californian town of Half Moon Bay and another three at a nearby farm. The shooter is under arrest.

These incidents established a sad record: the six-year-old student was the youngest shooter in the history of American gun culture. The 72-year-old the oldest. The average age of mass shooters in the US, according to the Rockefeller Institute of Government, a think tank, is 33.

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The list above is incomplete. On New Year’s Day alone, there were mass shootings in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Ohio. Separately, two parties in different Florida cities ended with revelers gunned down.

By January 25, the Gun Violence Archive listed more shootings than days of the month – 39 compared with 25. The only non-violent days of January 2023 were January 11, 18 and 19.

Each act of violence triggers almost identical rituals. TV networks and print media dispatch reporters to interview grieving survivors, analysts ponder on the possible motives, politicians express sympathy – “we send thoughts and prayers” is a favourite phrase – advocacy groups demand tighter controls on the sale of guns, conservatives routinely blame insufficient mental health care.

For the makers of guns, headline-making shootings are a business opportunity. Sales of guns and ammunition routinely spike after each mass shootings. Why? Two reasons, criminologists say. One is to defend themselves in case they are caught in a shooting and the second fear of restrictions on the purchase of firearms – easier in most US&nbsp;states than anywhere else in the world.

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Lax gun laws have resulted in a steadily growing number of firearms owned by civilians. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun trade association, that number now stands at 434 million. The US&nbsp;Census Bureau’s latest estimate of the population is 333.2 million.

Opponents of tighter gun controls see any proposal – such as deeper background checks for buyers – as a move towards eliminating the Second Amendment of the US&nbsp;constitution which guarantees the right to bear arms.

Its wording has been the centre of fierce debate for many decades. It says: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

It was ratified in 1791, at a time when muskets and flintlock pistols were the typical firearms. They held a single round at a time and it required high skill to fire three rounds&nbsp;in a minute. One can question whether the founders of the constitution would have used similar language had they imagined that the most frequently used firearm used in recent shootings fires 45 rounds a minute?

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The US&nbsp;Supreme Court ended years of legal wrangling over the phrase “well regulated militia” with a ruling in 2008 saying the amendment guaranteed an individual the right to possess firearms independent of service in a state militia.

Gun culture is deeply rooted in the history of America, a country founded in armed insurrection against British colonial rule and later in westward expansion by armed settlers. The Wild West, frontier justice, gunslingers and cowboys and Indians are part of American lore, glorified by literature and Hollywood movies.

In America’s federal system, which gives considerable power to the states, regulations on guns vary and some are truly baffling. In Texas, for example, state law forbids the sale of pistols for buyers under 21 years of age. But it allows the sale of “long guns” to people aged 18.

Which is why a young man called Salvador Ramos waited till his 18th birthday to buy the AR-15 assault rifle, legally a “long gun” with which he killed 19 children and two teachers and wounded 17 others at his former elementary school at the city of Uvalde. Police shot and killed him. The “long gun” regulation is still in force.

One phrase that comes to my mind when I think about the US&nbsp;epidemic of violence is “American exceptionalism”, the belief shared by many Americans that their country is inherently superior to others. Those who have even the slightest reservations about that concept tend to face charges of lacking patriotism.

Former president Barack Obama had a taste of this when he answered a question at a NATO conference in 2009 about whether he subscribed to the idea of American exceptionalism. His response: “I believe in American exceptionalism. Just as the Brits believe in British exceptionalism, and the Greeks in Greek exceptionalism.”

Oops! Wrong answer in the eyes of many of his compatriots. But where guns and gun laws and shootings are concerned, there can be no doubt that America is exceptional. Judging from history, it will remain that way.

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Gun violence has become so much part of daily life in the United States, the only country with more guns in private hands than people, that mass shootings rarely prompt shock and surprise. But they did in the first weeks of the year because of a sequence of events that spoke volumes of the country’s deep and deadly love affair with guns. To explain, here is a timeline of events: January 6 – A six-year-old boy shot and badly wounded a teacher he disliked with a 9mm handgun he carried into his school in the Virginia city of Newport News in his backpack. January 17 – A neighbour watching his home security camera spotted a toddler wearing a diaper and waving a pistol wandering the hallway of an apartment building in the city of Beech Grove, Indiana. It’s still not clear how the student and the toddler got access to the weapons. January 21 – A man using a submachine gun killed 11 people and wounded 10 at a dance hall in Monterey Park, near Los Angeles. The shooter, aged 72, killed himself after the vehicle in which he was fleeing was surrounded by police. January 24 - Four people were shot dead at a mushroom farm in the Northern Californian town of Half Moon Bay and another three at a nearby farm. The shooter is under arrest. These incidents established a sad record: the six-year-old student was the youngest shooter in the history of American gun culture. The 72-year-old the oldest. The average age of mass shooters in the US, according to the Rockefeller Institute of Government, a think tank, is 33. Also Read | Biden calls for assault weapons ban after California witnesses third mass shooting within three days The list above is incomplete. On New Year’s Day alone, there were mass shootings in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Ohio. Separately, two parties in different Florida cities ended with revelers gunned down. By January 25, the Gun Violence Archive listed more shootings than days of the month – 39 compared with 25. The only non-violent days of January 2023 were January 11, 18 and 19. Each act of violence triggers almost identical rituals. TV networks and print media dispatch reporters to interview grieving survivors, analysts ponder on the possible motives, politicians express sympathy – “we send thoughts and prayers” is a favourite phrase – advocacy groups demand tighter controls on the sale of guns, conservatives routinely blame insufficient mental health care. For the makers of guns, headline-making shootings are a business opportunity. Sales of guns and ammunition routinely spike after each mass shootings. Why? Two reasons, criminologists say. One is to defend themselves in case they are caught in a shooting and the second fear of restrictions on the purchase of firearms – easier in most US states than anywhere else in the world. Also Read | Two shootings in Half Moon Bay, California, leave 7 dead; Asian man arrested Lax gun laws have resulted in a steadily growing number of firearms owned by civilians. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun trade association, that number now stands at 434 million. The US Census Bureau’s latest estimate of the population is 333.2 million. Opponents of tighter gun controls see any proposal – such as deeper background checks for buyers – as a move towards eliminating the Second Amendment of the US constitution which guarantees the right to bear arms. Its wording has been the centre of fierce debate for many decades. It says: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” It was ratified in 1791, at a time when muskets and flintlock pistols were the typical firearms. They held a single round at a time and it required high skill to fire three rounds in a minute. One can question whether the founders of the constitution would have used similar language had they imagined that the most frequently used firearm used in recent shootings fires 45 rounds a minute? × The US Supreme Court ended years of legal wrangling over the phrase “well regulated militia” with a ruling in 2008 saying the amendment guaranteed an individual the right to possess firearms independent of service in a state militia. Gun culture is deeply rooted in the history of America, a country founded in armed insurrection against British colonial rule and later in westward expansion by armed settlers. The Wild West, frontier justice, gunslingers and cowboys and Indians are part of American lore, glorified by literature and Hollywood movies. In America’s federal system, which gives considerable power to the states, regulations on guns vary and some are truly baffling. In Texas, for example, state law forbids the sale of pistols for buyers under 21 years of age. But it allows the sale of “long guns” to people aged 18. Which is why a young man called Salvador Ramos waited till his 18th birthday to buy the AR-15 assault rifle, legally a “long gun” with which he killed 19 children and two teachers and wounded 17 others at his former elementary school at the city of Uvalde. Police shot and killed him. The “long gun” regulation is still in force. One phrase that comes to my mind when I think about the US epidemic of violence is “American exceptionalism”, the belief shared by many Americans that their country is inherently superior to others. Those who have even the slightest reservations about that concept tend to face charges of lacking patriotism. Former president Barack Obama had a taste of this when he answered a question at a NATO conference in 2009 about whether he subscribed to the idea of American exceptionalism. His response: “I believe in American exceptionalism. Just as the Brits believe in British exceptionalism, and the Greeks in Greek exceptionalism.” Oops! Wrong answer in the eyes of many of his compatriots. But where guns and gun laws and shootings are concerned, there can be no doubt that America is exceptional. Judging from history, it will remain that way. (Disclaimer: The views of the writer do not represent the views of WION or ZMCL. Nor does WION or ZMCL endorse the views of the writer.) WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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Multiple gun shootings erupted across Philadelphia, US, at midnight, leaving three dead and nearly a dozen wounded. Two of the victims have been identified as a 25-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man.&nbsp;

The incident took place shortly before Saturday midnight when police on patrol heard numerous gunshots from the 200 block of South Street, according to reports.

People were enjoying the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia's Pride celebrations throughout the city when the mass shooting took place.

Patrolling officers saw “several active shooters” firing into the crowd, Inspector DF Pace said, reports New York Post.

Prior to this shooting, were nine separate shootings in the city between Friday night and Saturday. No arrests have been made in any of those incidents, reports&nbsp;CBS Philadelphia.

One eye witness said in a tweet that he saw “lots of young kids out doing dumb stuff, in the street &amp; jumping on cars &amp; then a guy in a hoodie pulled a gun out, 11 casings &amp; 2 live rounds on the ground.”

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Another witness Smith told the Philadelphia Inquirer news outlet, “Once it started. I didn’t think it was going to stop. I just heard screams.'

He told the newspaper that when he heard the gunshots, his mind went to the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde.&nbsp;

Police recovered two semi-automatic handguns from the shooting scene.

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Videos that emerged in the social media in the aftermath of the shooting showed a large number of people surrounding police vehicles with sirens blaring.&nbsp;

Philadelphia police confirmed that multiple people were shot in the area of South Street between 3rd and 4th.

A tweet from the Philadelphia Police Department did not specify how many people have been shot but the message stated that, “Several people have been injured.” The police advised the public to avoid the area.&nbsp;

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Multiple gun shootings erupted across Philadelphia, US, at midnight, leaving three dead and nearly a dozen wounded. Two of the victims have been identified as a 25-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man.

Multiple gun shootings erupted across Philadelphia, US, at midnight, leaving three dead and nearly a dozen wounded. Two of the victims have been identified as a 25-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man. The incident took place shortly before Saturday midnight when police on patrol heard numerous gunshots from the 200 block of South Street, according to reports. People were enjoying the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia's Pride celebrations throughout the city when the mass shooting took place. Patrolling officers saw “several active shooters” firing into the crowd, Inspector DF Pace said, reports New York Post. Prior to this shooting, were nine separate shootings in the city between Friday night and Saturday. No arrests have been made in any of those incidents, reports CBS Philadelphia. One eye witness said in a tweet that he saw “lots of young kids out doing dumb stuff, in the street & jumping on cars & then a guy in a hoodie pulled a gun out, 11 casings & 2 live rounds on the ground.” 🚨BREAKING: At least ten shot near South and 4th Streets in Philadelphia just after 11:30p. At least one of the wounded has been pronounced dead, per police. Seven victims transported to Jefferson. Conditions unknown. Same area where a shooting happened last weekend. pic.twitter.com/Fe4ZwJIhjJ — LockharTVMedia (@LockharTVMedia) June 5, 2022 × Another witness Smith told the Philadelphia Inquirer news outlet, “Once it started. I didn’t think it was going to stop. I just heard screams.' He told the newspaper that when he heard the gunshots, his mind went to the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde. Police recovered two semi-automatic handguns from the shooting scene. *Alert* Emergency personnel are responding to a shooting incident in the area of 3rd and South Streets. Several people have been injured. Please avoid the area. — Philadelphia Police (@PhillyPolice) June 5, 2022 × Videos that emerged in the social media in the aftermath of the shooting showed a large number of people surrounding police vehicles with sirens blaring. Philadelphia police confirmed that multiple people were shot in the area of South Street between 3rd and 4th. A tweet from the Philadelphia Police Department did not specify how many people have been shot but the message stated that, “Several people have been injured.” The police advised the public to avoid the area. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE

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With more recent research drilling down on the precise relationship between temperature and crime rates, criminologists in the United States believe that gun violence in the country spikes during warm weather.

Highlighting the common sense as well as potentially less obvious mechanisms at play, David Hemenway, a professor of health policy at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, told AFP, "It's hard to shoot somebody if there's nobody around."

While there are many causes behind the rising tide of gun violence in the United States, a controversial idea is that hot weather might rev up conflict.

Hemenway, who co-wrote a paper in Injury Epidemiology, used reports from the Chicago Tribune to get the number of shootings per day and then matched those against daily high temperature, humidity, wind speed, the difference in temperature from historical average, and precipitation type and amount.

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According to this report that examined the city of Chicago between 2012 and 2016, a 10-degree Celsius higher temperature was significantly associated with 34 percent more shootings on weekdays, and 42 percent more shootings on weekends or holidays.&nbsp;

"In the winter, there were more shootings on those days which wouldn't have been hot in the summer but were warm for winter," Hemenway said.

According to Hemenway, "It's sort of a harm reduction. But even if this wasn't a gun problem, I suspect we would find the same thing if we had evidence about fights and assaults. What the guns do is make hostile interactions more deadly."

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Leah Schinasi of Drexel University-led research on another paper that looked at violent crime in Philadelphia and was published in the Journal of Urban Health in 2017.

Schinasi told AFP, "I live in Philadelphia, and I remember biking home from work on a very hot day and observing how cranky everyone seemed. I was interested to see if this observation translated to higher rates of crime on hot days."

Violent crimes happened more often in the warmer months, May through September, according to Schinasi and the study's co-author Ghassan Hamra.

In comparison, daily rates of violent crime reduced substantially in the colder months, October through April.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit research group, over 18,000 people have died from gun violence in the United States in 2022, including homicide and suicide.

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With more recent research drilling down on the precise relationship between temperature and crime rates, criminologists in the United States believe that gun violence in the country spikes during warm weather.

With more recent research drilling down on the precise relationship between temperature and crime rates, criminologists in the United States believe that gun violence in the country spikes during warm weather. Highlighting the common sense as well as potentially less obvious mechanisms at play, David Hemenway, a professor of health policy at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, told AFP, "It's hard to shoot somebody if there's nobody around." While there are many causes behind the rising tide of gun violence in the United States, a controversial idea is that hot weather might rev up conflict. Hemenway, who co-wrote a paper in Injury Epidemiology, used reports from the Chicago Tribune to get the number of shootings per day and then matched those against daily high temperature, humidity, wind speed, the difference in temperature from historical average, and precipitation type and amount. According to this report that examined the city of Chicago between 2012 and 2016, a 10-degree Celsius higher temperature was significantly associated with 34 percent more shootings on weekdays, and 42 percent more shootings on weekends or holidays. "In the winter, there were more shootings on those days which wouldn't have been hot in the summer but were warm for winter," Hemenway said. According to Hemenway, "It's sort of a harm reduction. But even if this wasn't a gun problem, I suspect we would find the same thing if we had evidence about fights and assaults. What the guns do is make hostile interactions more deadly." Also read | Texas mass shooting: Victim’s parents, Uvalde school survivor sue gunmaker Leah Schinasi of Drexel University-led research on another paper that looked at violent crime in Philadelphia and was published in the Journal of Urban Health in 2017. Schinasi told AFP, "I live in Philadelphia, and I remember biking home from work on a very hot day and observing how cranky everyone seemed. I was interested to see if this observation translated to higher rates of crime on hot days." Violent crimes happened more often in the warmer months, May through September, according to Schinasi and the study's co-author Ghassan Hamra. In comparison, daily rates of violent crime reduced substantially in the colder months, October through April. According to the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit research group, over 18,000 people have died from gun violence in the United States in 2022, including homicide and suicide. (With inputs from agencies) Watch WION's live TV here:

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