According to the Gun Violence Archive, 130  Mass shootings in the United States have occurred this year. One hundred, ten. Just this year. 2023.

Total number of Gun Violence Deaths: 8,417

Homicide/Murder/Unintentional 3,599

Suicide: 4,818

Those are the deaths.

The total number of injured is 6,323.

Are you ready for some heartbreak?

The children.

Children from age zero to 11. Killed by gun violence. 60 were shot and killed. 128 injured.

Teens

For teenagers ages 12 to 17, 285 were killed. 714 teens were injured.

We haven’t even finished the Month of March yet.

Please note: these numbers go up every day!

Mass shootings.

We have had two mass shootings in my home state of California. And when President Biden signed his executive order today in Monterey Park, California.

 That is where on January 21, 2023, a gunman stormed into a dance hall and gunned down 11 people. The gunman later killed himself during a stand-off with police.

But instead of California, I’m going to begin in Houston, Texas. The story is not about a mass shooting.

 Stories:

This is from Newsweek: Monday, March 13.

• A 3-year-old girl in Houston, Texas, accidentally shot and killed her 4-year-old sister with a loaded gun left unsecured in the family’s home.
• Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez stated that this was yet another preventable gun death and urged people to be responsible gun owners.
• The tragedy reflects the high rate of gun deaths among children and teenagers in the U.S.

There were five adults in the apartment when this happened. You know, everyone thought someone else was watching the babies. But they were alone in the bedroom. In the bedroom with the gun on the nightstand. The three-year-old got her hands on the loaded semi-automatic pistol. She shot her four-year-old sister.

Gun locks. Gun safe. There are great ones now that work with a thumbprint. Damn it!

According to Newsweek, the tragedy reflects the high rate of gun deaths among children and teenagers in the U.S.

So far, the number of children and teens killed this year is just under 400.

March 14, 2023

GRIFFIN, Ga. — An 11-year-old girl dies after a stray bullet hit her through her bedroom window.

“One of the rounds fired at the intended target missed, traveled through the victim’s bedroom window, and struck her, killing her instantly,” says Spalding County Sheriff Darrell Dix.

Spalding County Deputies and first responders responded to the scene at Spalding Heights, where Coroner Michael Pryor arrived and pronounced the girl dead.

February 05, 2023

OLIVEHURST, Calif. — A 10-year-old Frankie Rosales, intelligent and compassionate, a foodie whose hobbies were baseball and karate and who loved to share random facts.

was shot and killed on Sunday night during what deputies from the Yuba County Sheriff’s Office said was a dispute among families.

The YCSO arrested Juan Ortiz, 31, on charges of homicide, shooting at an inhabited dwelling, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

“My baby didn’t deserve this,” Lori Rosiles, the mother of Frankie, said.

February 7, 2023

In Portage, Indiana, On Tuesday at approximately 11:02 AM, Portage Police and Fire units were dispatched to the 100 block of Coral Avenue about a two-year-old female who had suffered a gunshot wound, according to a Portage Police press release. The initial investigation shows that the child was able to gain access to a family-owned firearm. The child was able to discharge a single round, striking herself. No other children were in the home, and no other injuries were reported. An autopsy is scheduled for today.

Mass shootings

March 14, 2023, Dallas, Texas.

Four people killed

Mass shootings

March 10, 2023, Hialeah Florida Mass Murder.

Five people were found dead in a Miami Lakes home. Five women and two men were found dead. Police say it was a murder-suicide.

Two of the bodies were found in two separate bedrooms, he said. Another was found in the garage. A law enforcement source told the Miami Herald that three victims were relatives of the shooter, who had just arrived from Cuba on Thursday. Rolando Aguilar identified one of the victims as his ex-wife Yoanka Aguilar, 54, according to NBC 6. He said his son Dhani Aguilar, 34, also died. He was the shooter.

One neighbor said, We ride bikes through here; it is a super safe neighborhood,” she told reporters. “Never anything happens like this. This is crazy, out of the ordinary.”

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Arkabutla, near Coldwater, Mississippi, had six people shot dead at different locations. The gunman, Richard Dale Crum, 52, of Arkabutla. He began his shooting spree at 11 a.m. outside the Express Mart on Arkabutla Road, where the first victim was killed.

David Mueller lives across the street from the store, where authorities said Crum shot and killed 59-year-old Chris Boyce as he sat in the driver’s seat of his pick-up truck. Boyce’s brother, next to him in the front seat, ran away from Crum and survived.

 He has been charged with first-degree murder; Crum allegedly killed his ex-wife and wounded her husband,  investigators in Tate County, Mississippi, said 52-year-old Richard Crum shot all the victims, including his ex-wife and step-father, at three locations.

February 27, 2023

Family Annihilation

LERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) – The Clermont County Sheriff’s Office says it is investigating four deaths as a potential murder-suicide in Ohio Township.

Authorities say uniformed deputies responded to a home on Riebel Ridge Road at around 9:40 a.m. Monday to serve civil papers.

Chief Deputy Chris Stratton says multiple gunshots were heard from inside the home as deputies approached.

The agency’s special response team entered the home after there was no response from the occupants.

March 1, 2023 COCOA, FLORIA

Four people were found dead in Canaveral Groves, which Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey calls a ‘tragic, isolated incident.’

The 36-year-old father of one of the four people found dead in a Canaveral Groves home was arrested late Wednesday and charged with carrying out the deadly shooting that left investigators and neighbors stunned.

The arrest came around 12 hours after Brevard County sheriff’s deputies were called to the single-story home to find the bodies of two women, a teenage girl, and a man, in what Sheriff Wayne Ivey called a “horrific” but “isolated” incident. No motive was given. The discovery was made after one of two surviving children called another person to report that something had happened inside the house at 4075 Alan Shepard Ave.

“This is an extremely violent individual with an extremely violent past dating back as far as 2005, who should have never been on these streets where he could take the lives of this family,” said Ivey, flanked by homicide agents, during a statement made on social media.

Biden’s Executive Order

President Biden signed an executive order on Monday, March 15, which could help increase background checks. The bill aims at Gun Sellers who don’t perform “required” background checks. The executive order also directs federal agencies to improve public awareness and promote the use of “red flag” laws. It instructs the attorney general to release more information about federally licensed firearms dealers who violate the law.

Does this ban assault weapons? No. No. No. Does this ban high-capacity magazines? No, no, no, But it’s something. It’s more what Republican propose to do.

We need a national, country-wide ban on assault weapons and magazines. Nobody on earth needs these guns.

Finally, I’m sure more people will have died when I post this podcast or spell-check and fact-check this story. 

And so they have.