4 Aug: WTOP: Associated Press: Attack on Texas shoppers to be handled as domestic terrorism
The shootings in Texas and Ohio were the 21st and 22nd mass killings of 2019 in the U.S., according to the AP/USA Today/Northeastern University mass murder database that tracks homicides where four or more people killed — not including the offender.
Including the two latest attacks, 125 people had been killed in the 2019 shootings...
https://wtop.com/national/2019/08/20-dead-many-injured-after-gunman-attacks-texas-shoppers/
yet much of the FakeNewsMSM is reporting “292 mass shootings” this year & this figure is being reported by some of the Australian media too!
5 Aug: Quartz: The 292 mass shootings in the US so far this year, mapped
By Katherine Ellen Foley
As of today (Aug. 4), we are 216 days into 2019. In the US over that time, more than 1,300 people have been injured or killed in mass shootings, according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive.
The nonprofit organization, which is based in Washington, DC, defines a mass shooting as an event in which at least four people were shot. By its calculations, that means there have been some 292 mass shootings in the US since the year began...
The high rate of gun ownership and the spread of white nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment are largely blamed for fueling the unprecedented number of mass shootings in the US...
https://qz.com/1681082/the-292-mass-shootings-in-the-us-so-far-this-year-mapped/
4 Aug: AP: The Latest: Suspect’s grandparents say they’re ‘devastated’
4:30 p.m.
Mexico’s foreign minister says the country plans to take legal action against whoever sold the gun to the man suspected of killing at least 20 people and wounding more than two dozen others in El Paso, Texas...
Gun ownership is highly restricted in Mexico, requiring special permits, and gun shops are rare. The average Mexican has trouble legally acquiring a handgun, much less an assault weapon.
Ebrard also called Saturday’s shooting “a terrorist act” against Mexicans and urged the U.S. government to “set a clear position against hate crimes.”
3:10 p.m.
Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the number of Mexicans killed in the shooting in the border city of El Paso, Texas, has risen to six...
López Obrador also says that the events in Texas reaffirm his conviction that “social problems shouldn’t be confronted with the use of force and by inciting hate.”
12:20 p.m.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico would take legal action to protect Mexicans and Americans of Mexican descent after the shooting in El Paso, Texas...
Next, he said, Mexico plans to seek legal measures to protect Mexican nationals and Mexican-Americans in the U.S...
https://www.apnews.com/e64af41d18f449b3b492685827c9f2b9
USA: Population 327 million
Mexico: Population 129 million
don’t know how many of these were gun homicides, but:
UN Office on Drugs & Crime: Homicide rates
2017 USA 5.3 per 100,000
2017 Mexico 24.8 per 100,000
https://dataunodc.un.org/GSH_app