Trigger-happy US a threat to young lives there


The recent cases show gun violence is becoming a bigger menace in the US, with younger people brandishing and using guns, says the writer. – Posed photo/123rf.com

AT least 21 lives, 19 students and two adults, have been lost at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, following yet another incident of mass shooting on May 24.

According to the Gun Violence Archive website, this was the 212th such incident in 144 days of this year in the gun-torn United States. Also, this comes just 10 days after the widely reported Buffalo mass shooting.

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