years according to the gun violence archive. the u.s. had 647 mass shootings last year. 690 in 2021. and 610 in 2020. for more, i am now joined by active shooter expert kathryn swans, she is a former senior fbi official and consultant on workplace violence. thank you very much for joining us. back-to-back mass shootings in california, in, what, 72 hours. the specific of these shootings are striking. from a security perspective, what are you looking at? well, the first thing is that, i see these as the one that follows the other. it is really reflective of what our research is showing about a contagion factor. that one incident occurs in the 4 to 10 days after a mass shooting there will be three more mass shootings. and that tells me to tell the
night. xenophobia, racial priming what they have done to perpetuate crime and violence in this country by scapegoating and by doing not a damn thing about gun safety, not the right time, not the right time, rinse repeat. not the right time. rinse repeat uvalde, remember? rinse repeat. not damn thing they do and we allow them to get away with that. the mass shootings in california bring the number to 39 in the u.s. in just the first three weeks of this year. putting the country on pace for more than 600 incidents by end of the year close to what we ve seen the past three years, according to the gun violence archive, the u.s. had 647 mass shootings last year, 690 in
walmart. these statistics are sobering. the nonprofit gun violence archives says the united states is now on pace to record 675 mass shootings by the end of the year. the definition of mass shooting being a shooting in which four or more people are killed or injured. that would make it the second most deadly year since they started tracking gun deaths. last year still holdings the record, 690. a pediatrician seen here pictured with her family right before the hollywood park shooting at a july 4th parade outside of chicago says that policymakers need to reframe this as a public health price. that pediatrician dr. emily lieberman joins us live. doctor, i m curious to get your solutions to the cycle of violence. but first, i want to remind our viewers what happened to you and
police doesn t say it. police unions don t say it. this is the challenge, i think, scott, sorry to just talk to you but i will say to you. the challenge is, we don t have this conversation. we don t talk about this nexus. molly said it is not an either/or. absolutely not. but, the problem is that the response, i have to say, from the republican side is, we don t want to talk about this. we only want to talk about this as mental health, nothing else. when the river looking controlled congress, they wouldn t even allow a study of gun violence. they wouldn t spend the money to get data. 690 mass shootings, last year. there is no country on earth that has that. why should we be exceptional in the amount of gun violence we have? this year, we have 609, so far. we may actually get more than last year. this is an epidemic. let me let scott respond. scott, why are publicans uncomfortable talking about the gun aspect of this epidemic?