This year alone there have been 21,928 firearm related deaths in the US,at least 355 of them part of a mass shooting.
The guilty plea comes just seven months after the shooting that killed five people,and spares victim’s families and survivors a long and potentially painful trial.
In a nation where strangers are often seen as threats and fear has been politicised,going to the wrong address or ringing the wrong doorbell,can end badly.
A new law has passed that would block the sale,distribution,manufacture and importation of more than 50 firearm models,including AK-47s and similar rifles.
A North Carolina man said that as soon as he saw the armed man who lived next door coming out shooting,“I was hollering at everybody to get down and get inside”.
A man shot two Texas cheerleaders after one of them mistakenly got into his car thinking it was her own,in the latest in a string of recent US shootings apparently sparked by someone showing up at the wrong place.
A bank building in downtown Louisville,Kentucky,has become the scene of America’s latest mass shooting.
“We called for you all to ban assault weapons,and you respond with an assault on democracy,” said representative Justin Jones before being kicked out of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
In an apparent suicide message minutes before the rampage,28-year-old Audrey Hale wrote an Instagram note to a former school basketball teammate that declared:“I’m planning to die today.”
The attacker,who police said identified as transgender,wielded two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol in the latest US mass shooting,police said.
The first-time congressman represents the Tennessee district that includes the school where a 28-year-old has killed at least six people.