By Tuesday, Jan. 24, the United States had already recorded 39 mass shootings (minimum of four people injured or killed) — in big cities and small towns, in deliberate acts of savagery and random acts of senseless brutality, in homes, businesses, farms and streets.
The victims are Black, white, Hispanic and Asian; men and women; adults and — heaven help us — so many children.
No American community is spared the awful and indelible trauma of gun violence. And this will continue until we, as a society and as a nation, choose a different course.
We have the power to stop it the moment we demonstrate the will and the resolve.
Jan. 1: Four people shot at a recreation center in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Jan. 1: Five people shot at a Subway restaurant in Durham, North Carolina.
Jan. 1: Nine people shot, including a 2-year-old boy, at a house party in Miami Gardens, Florida.
Jan. 1: Four people shot, one fatally, in Washington Park in Chicago.
Jan. 1: Six people shot, two fatally, at a block party in Ocala, Florida.
Jan. 1: Five people shot, one fatally, at a nightclub in Columbus, Ohio.
Jan. 3: Four people shot on a street in New Orleans.
Jan. 3: Four people shot, one fatally, on a street in Washington, D.C. An 8-year-old boy was among the wounded.
Jan. 4: Four teenagers shot and one 3-year-old killed at a home in Dumfries, Virginia.
Jan. 4: Five teenagers shot, one fatally, at a shopping center in Baltimore.
Jan. 4: Three adults and five children, ages 4-17, fatally shot in a murder-suicide in Enoch, Utah.
Jan. 5: Ten people shot outside a restaurant in Miami Gardens, Florida.
Jan. 5: Five people shot, two fatally, outside a home in New Orleans.
Jan. 6: Four people shot, one fatally, in the Mission District of San Francisco.
Jan. 6: Five people shot, three fatally, at an apartment complex in Dallas.
Jan. 7: Five people shot and killed in a murder-suicide in High Point, North Carolina.
Jan. 7: Eleven people shot, two fatally, at a 21st birthday party in Huntsville, Alabama.
Jan. 8: Four people shot at a park in Albany, Georgia.
Jan. 8: Four people shot at a nightclub in Minneapolis.
Jan. 9: Four people shot on a street in Denver.
Jan. 9: Four people shot at a Little Ceasar’s restaurant in Minneapolis.
Jan. 9: Four people shot, three fatally, outside a home in Philadelphia.
Jan. 13: Three adults and a teenager were shot fatally, and an 8-year-old girl was wounded, at a house in Cleveland.
Jan. 14: Four people shot on a street in St. Louis.
Jan. 15: Five people shot, one fatally, at a nightclub in Houston.
Jan. 15: An adult, a pregnant woman and two teenagers shot at a home in Phoenix.
Jan. 15: Four people shot, one fatally, at a parking lot in Homestead, Florida.
Jan. 15: Five people shot, two fatally, at an apartment complex in Rockford , Illinois.
Jan. 16: Six people shot, one fatally, on a street in Sanford, Florida.
Jan. 16: Six people shot fatally, including a 16-year-old girl and a 10-month-old boy, at a home in Goshen, California.
Jan. 16: Eight people shot, one fatally, at a park in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Jan. 17: Four people shot outside a restaurant in Houston.
Jan. 21: Twenty people shot, 11 fatally, at a dance hall in Monterey Park, California.
Jan. 22: Eight people shot, including three children under the age of 10, at a house in Shreveport , Louisiana.
Jan. 22: Twelve people shot at a nightclub in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Jan. 22: Four people shot outside a casino in Robinsonville, Mississippi.
Jan. 23: Eight people shot, one fatally, at a gas station in Oakland, California.
Jan. 23: Eight people shot, seven fatally, at a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay, California.
Jan. 23: Five people shot, two fatally, at a home in Chicago.
(Information culled from the Gun Violence Archive, gunviolencearchive.org.)
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