Amid celebrations and fireworks over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend, cities across the country were left reeling from the scourge of gun violence in America as shootings occurred at block parties and other festive gatherings.
More than 80 people were shot, at least 13 fatally, in a string of mass shootings across the country, according to law enforcement officials. Between Sunday and early Wednesday, there were at least eight shootings in which four or more people were wounded or killed in major cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and Fort Worth, Texas.
Among those killed was a 15-year-old boy, and many children were among the wounded.
"This is a societal problem that we're dealing with, a mass shooting where a disagreement turns into 28 people shot. This is insanity," an emotional Bill Ferguson, president of the Maryland State Senate, said following a mass shooting that erupted at a Baltimore block party on Sunday. "This cannot be the society that we are expected to live in. We have to do better."
John Cohen, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security acting undersecretary for intelligence, said the holiday shootings highlighted the challenges law enforcement officials face with more and more people carrying firearms and using them to settle disputes regardless of innocent people getting caught in the crossfire.
"While typically we look at mass shootings from the perspective of whether it was ideologically motivated or motivated by some perceived grievance fueled by underlying behavioral health challenges, what we have also seen in this current threat environment is an increase of mass casualty violence as a reaction to disputes or disagreements with others," Cohen, an ABC News contributor, said.
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More than 80 people were shot, at least 13 fatally, in a string of mass shootings across the country, according to law enforcement officials. Between Sunday and early Wednesday, there were at least eight shootings in which four or more people were wounded or killed in major cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and Fort Worth, Texas.
Among those killed was a 15-year-old boy, and many children were among the wounded.
"This is a societal problem that we're dealing with, a mass shooting where a disagreement turns into 28 people shot. This is insanity," an emotional Bill Ferguson, president of the Maryland State Senate, said following a mass shooting that erupted at a Baltimore block party on Sunday. "This cannot be the society that we are expected to live in. We have to do better."
John Cohen, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security acting undersecretary for intelligence, said the holiday shootings highlighted the challenges law enforcement officials face with more and more people carrying firearms and using them to settle disputes regardless of innocent people getting caught in the crossfire.
"While typically we look at mass shootings from the perspective of whether it was ideologically motivated or motivated by some perceived grievance fueled by underlying behavioral health challenges, what we have also seen in this current threat environment is an increase of mass casualty violence as a reaction to disputes or disagreements with others," Cohen, an ABC News contributor, said.
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Insanity’: 4th of July mass shootings leave 20 dead, 126 injured
Amid celebrations and fireworks over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend, cities across the country were left reeling from the scourge of gun violence in America.
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