Washington (EFE).- The White House affirmed that the United States is experiencing “a crisis” due to the shootings, after the attack this weekend in Allen (Texas), where eight people died, among them minors.
“We are on day 128 of 2023, and by leading counts, we have seen the 201st mass shooting this year in this country,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said at her press conference. daily.
He stressed that this represents an average of more than one shooting a day and that, according to estimates, more than 14,000 people have died this year from gun violence.
“This is a crisis, this is a crisis that Republicans in Congress refuse to address. We are talking about the largest cause of death in minors in the US and with the Republicans in Congress saying that nothing can be done about it, ”lamented the spokeswoman.
Jean-Pierre recalled that the country’s president, Joe Biden, urged Congress this Sunday to pass a law banning assault weapons and other types of high-capacity weapons, among other measures.
On Saturday, a man opened fire in a shopping center in Allen, a city near Dallas, Texas, with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, killing eight people.
To date, 202 “mass shootings” have been recorded in the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive organization, which considers shootings with at least four victims -both dead and wounded- and without tell the attacker.