Thursday, November 22nd, 2018

Where to avoid if you don’t want to be shot in America

Author: Arwa Mahdawi
Source: Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date: Tue 20 Nov 2018 11.38 EST
Link: Where to avoid if you don’t want to be shot in America

Stephan: This is a lead story in The Guardian, one of the most prestigious and widely read newspapers in the English language. Never in my life did I ever expect to see such an article in such a publication. This is what America's gun psychosis has wrought. How do you feel about the world thinking of the United States as an unsafe country, that people are being warned not to visit?

There are no safe spaces in America when it comes to gun violence; the NRA is turning the entire country into a no-go zone.’
Credit: Xinhua/Barcroft Images

Five people have died after three shootings across America on Monday night. A gunman killed three people at Mercy hospital in Chicago; one person died and four were injured at a shooting near Coors Field in Colorado; and a woman was shot dead at a religious supply store near St Louis.

“You can’t go to the hospital, you can’t go to school, you can’t go to church, you can’t go to the grocery store,” one woman caught up in the Mercy hospital shooting told CBS News. “You can’t go anywhere … You never know when you walk into a place if you’re going to come out alive.”

She’s right. Monday’s violence means that there have now been 316 mass shooting incidents in America this year, according to data from […]

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