As many as three persons were killed during shooting at a Target store in Austin, TX. Fleeing, the lunatic stole a car, crashed it, then hijacked another vehicle before being caught. The suspect is a man in his 30s with a documented history of mental health issues. Two victims were declared dead at the scene, while a third victim died in the hospital. Emergency responders treated one person at the scene for injuries. This incident came after two persons were killed, six others left wounded in a shooting during a music festival after-party in downtown Los Angeles last week. The other day, the mother of Natalie Rupnow, the fifteen-year-old girl who shot and killed two people and wounded six more at Abundant Life Christian School (ALCS) in Madison, WI last December, died by an apparent suicide. Link: Mother Kills Herself.
Every eleven minutes, someone in the US is murdered by an assailant using a firearm. The CDC reported that 48,000 people were killed by guns in 2022. In an average year in Texas, 4,330 people die by guns. This is over ten killings per day and wartime casualty rates. Texas firearms licenses in 2021: 1,006,555; 45.7% of Texan adults say they live in homes with guns. According to the NIMH, one in six US adults lives with a mental illness (43.4 million in 2015). Link: NIMH. In Feb 2025, NRA-endorsed Dummkopf Trumpf recently loosened firearm regulations, so Americans can see more gun mayhem like this in the future. Link: Trumpf Ukase. Below are some victims of 21st-century American firearm violence.
