hands up. and here we go again. welcome to cnn this morning. good morning, everyone. you see poppy there. kaitlan is on assignment and i m don lemon. an american crisis. california suffer egg its third mass shooting in just three days. the nation as whole up to nearly 40 mass shootings in 2023. this year is just over three weeks old right now. look at this map. nearly 70 people killed already in mat shootings. 70 people living new year s day along side friends and family no longer here. this deadly month coming after america suffer ed 670 shootings last year, a significant jump from five or six years ago. one includes fourth graders inside their classroom. there are nearly 400 million privately-owned firearms in the u.s. that s 120 guns for every 100 americans. no other nation has more civilian guns than people. in 2019 the number of americans who died from gun violence was 1 times than developed countries. the u.s. is only develop the nation to have mass shootings eve