03.06.2022
Uvalde, Texas Attack is 212nd US mass shooting of Year 2022
The killing of 19 children at a school in Texas is the latest in a years-long series of mass shootings in the United States. A teenage gunman has killed 19 children and two adults at a primary school in south Texas, in what is the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. There have been 212 mass shootings so far in the United States this year 2022, according to a tally by US non-profit Gun Violence Archive – which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, not including the attacker. The Gun Violence Archive, which collects data on gun violence incidents in America, recorded 693 mass shootings in 2021 and 611 in 2020. Despite frequent mass shootings, attempts in the US to enact gun control legislation have long been frustrated by a powerful gun lobby. The United States has far more lax firearm laws and policies compared to other countries — the federal right to own a firearm is even baked into the United States' constitution via the Second Amendment. Gun laws and regulations also vary from state to state: some states have more restrictive laws, while some allow for much greater firearm ownership rates for protection and hunting. Credit: Brut.,NOW THIS
Poverty deprives people of adequate education, health care and of life's most basic necessities- safe living conditions (including clean air and clean drinking water) and an adequate food supply. The developed (industrialized) countries today account for roughly 20 percent of the world's population but control about 80 percent of the world's wealth.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
