{"id":7077,"date":"2023-03-08T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=7077"},"modified":"2023-03-08T09:39:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:39:22","slug":"us-crosses-100-mass-shootings-mark-in-under-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=7077","title":{"rendered":"US Crosses 100 Mass Shootings Mark in Under Three Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While the first quarter of 2023 is not yet over, the United States has already witnessed a staggering amount of gun violence in such a relatively short period of time.<br>Since the beginning of this year, over 100 mass shootings have occurred in the US, leaving 152 people dead and 396 injured (as of March 6).<br>Some US media outlets have already pointed out that more mass shootings have taken place this year at this point than during any other year before at least 2013.<br>One of this year\u2019s mass shootings occurred in Monterey Park, California, on January 21, in which a shooter killed 11 and injured 9 before killing himself. This was the deadliest since the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde in May 2022.<br>One of the most commonly used of the various definitions of a mass shooting is an act of public gun violence that results in the shooting of at least four people, excluding the shooter themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20230307\/us-crosses-100-mass-shootings-mark-in-under-three-months-1108154310.html\">Sputniknew<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the first quarter of 2023 is not yet over, the United States has already witnessed a staggering amount of gun violence in such a relatively short period of time.Since the beginning of this year, over 100 mass shootings have occurred in the US, leaving 152 people dead and 396 injured (as of March 6).Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1149],"class_list":["post-7077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-mass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7079,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions\/7079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}