US gun violence: How do you define a mass shooting?
Recent shootings in Highland Park near Chicago and Uvalde, Texas have reignited the US debate about access to firearms and how best to stop mass shootings.
The issue is a highly political one, pitting gun control advocates against sectors of the population fiercely protective of their constitutionally-enshrined right to bear arms. There isn't even a consensus on how to define a "mass shooting", as journalist Jennifer Mascia from The Trace, which reports on gun violence in the US, tells us.
Photo shows: People's belongings sit abandoned along the parade route after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. July 5, 2022. Credit: Reuters
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