latino. a texas lawmaker says ramos legally purchased the two rifles used in the shooting from a federally authorized dealer on his 18th birthday. just three days earlier a photo of two ar-15-style rifles was posted on an instagram account linked to the gunman. the massacre is the deadliest at a u.s. elementary school since 20 children and six adults were killed in the 2012 sandy hook shooting in newtown, connecticut. u.s. president joe biden says it is time for americans and lawmakers to stand up to the gun lobby and pass common sense regulations. why are we willing to live with this carnage? why do we keep letting this happen? where in god s name is our backbone? the president is just back from a trip to asia. he ordered flags at the white house and other public buildings lowered to half staff. well, parents waited late into the night at a civic center on tuesday hoping to be reunited with their children. cnn s ed lavandera in texas with more. reporter: late into the
hospitalized in south carolina because of complications tied to nation s formula shortage. a children s hospital in charleston says three of the infants were admitted because they couldn t tolerate the formulas their parents tried using for them. another got sick from mineral imbalances from care givers micking mick i mixing their own formula. 45% of formula products were out of stock. help is hours away and coming from across the atlantic. our senior medical correspondent is in germany where the first flights are getting ready the leave. how soon will this formula hit the shelves? we have been watch b service members putting together these pallets. it s 1.5 million bottles. each bottle eight ounces. 1.5 million being sent by a european company to the united states. the department of defense is doing the shipping. let s take a look at what they are sending. if you look at this, you can see it says nestle. that s a swiss company. that s a formula that s hypoallergenic. a l
gun violence this time of sgleer. so gun violence does traditionally have an uptick in the u.s. in the summer months. last year over the july fourth weekend, there were 17 mass shootings. one of which was highland park. you have several factors that converge in the summer. you have a lot of people off from work and school. you have the heat. alcohol is a factor. but most importantly, you have easy access to guns. that one really makes a difference, because this is a distinctly american phenomenon. it s also a recent phenomenon. so i was looking through gun violence archive. we have 348 mass shootings this year so far. two since i ve been sitting here. a decade ago, we had by the end of the july fourth weekend 118. that s a 200% increase in ten years. we have now three times more mass shootings than we did a decade ago. and it s not really a mystery why this is happening. gun production is ramping up to record levels.
view, is it the case that it is happening more frequently, or is it the case that we are becoming more aware, and trying to get to the bottom of why it is happening so frequently. i think it s both. i think for a long time, the only thing that really got substantial news coverage was the devastating mass shootings where dozens of people were killed. now we are much more aware that, you know, medical advances over the last 30 years were, if somebody might die from a gunshot in 1990, they re surviving now. so really the death count isn t as important as the number of people involved in each incident. it is happening more, though. we are seeing an accelerating pace of gun violence across this country. in 2021, we had more people killed from guns ever before, almost 49,000, more than car crashes. so at the same time, gun production has soared. gun production is up 152% in the last 15 years.
nonprofit newsroom dedicated to shining a light on america s gun violence crisis so good to see you, jennifer. jennifer massey. i m sorry. i mispronounced your name. so you study a gun violence, different circumstances with some commonalities in all of these shootings, meaning they all seem pretty senseless. right so what is most striking striking to you? yeah what s striking to me is we see people opening fire on their neighbors out of fear. and really, it s not that surprising . i mean gun production is up 152% in the last 15 years, and at the same time, the gun lobby and conservative media has been repeatedly boarding these messages that we are not safe without guns. there are bad guys lurking around every corner, and when you push a guns everywhere at all time mentality, people. going to see threats that aren t there and the pandemic only reinforce that we had people who were hunkered down in their