![]() ![]() In a new Harvard Youth Poll released Tuesday and completed before the shooting at a Nashville elementary school Monday, 63% of 18-to-29-year-olds say that gun laws should be stricter, with 22% saying they should be kept as they are and 13% that they should be made less strict. Silva, an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at William Paterson University.Ī majority of both young adults and the American public at large support the idea of stricter gun laws, polling finds. The US is the only developed country where mass shootings have happened every single year for the past 20 years, according to Jason R. There have been more shootings at this point in 2023 than in any previous year since at least 2013. There have been at least 130 mass shootings in 2023, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, including Monday's deadly shooting. Grim statistics: Monday's shooting is the deadliest school shooting since the the attack in Uvalde, Texas last May. In wake of the shooting, he reiterated his call for Congress to pass an assault weapons ban Tuesday and said there is a "moral price to pay for inaction." According to three senior administration officials, White House officials are not currently planning a major new push around gun safety reform. Gun reform: Biden suggested Tuesday that any future action on gun violence will fall to Congress, as he said he has exhausted all executive actions. Investigators have yet to determine a motive, but believe the school itself was targeted. He said Tuesday that Hale, who was a former student of the Covenant School, purchased at least seven guns legally and locally. The shooter: Audrey Hale, 28, was under care for an " emotional disorder," according to Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake. Here's a full timeline of how the shooting went down. ![]() Two officers then opened fire, killing the shooter at 10:27 a.m. They went upstairs and confronted the shooter, who “had been firing through a window at arriving police cars,” police said in a news release. The first five responding officers heard gunfire coming from the second floor. local time, police spokesperson Don Aaron said, and rushed to the scene. Police first received a call about an active shooter inside Covenant school at 10:13 a.m. ![]() What happened: Monday's shooting unfolded over about 14 minutes, according to police, and spanned two floors of the school. President Joe Biden has not yet spoken to any of the families of the victims, but said he is " working on that now." Authorities believe the six victims were targeted randomly. The victims: The victims of the shooting include Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9 Mike Hill, 61 Katherine Koonce, 60 Cynthia Peak, 61 Hallie Scruggs, 9 and William Kinney, 9. The city of Nashville plans to hold a vigil Wednesday night "to mourn and honor the precious lives lost at The Covenant School," a flyer for the event shared by Mayor John Cooper said. Three children and three adults were killed Monday at the Covenant School - a private Christian elementary school, according to police. Communities are mourning the victims of a mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. ![]()
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