48 people were shot during the 15 hour filibuster yesterday

[ttt]

www.vox.com/2016/6/16/11952166/filibuster-gun-control-shootings


Yesterday, in an effort to force legislative action on gun control, Sen. Chris Murphy staged a 15-hour filibuster on the Senate floor. It lasted from 11 am Wednesday through 2 am Thursday, eventually ending with the GOP agreeing to vote on a gun control bill.

As politicians recounted stories of gun violence before the Senate, there were 38 shootings that killed 12 people and injured 36 more across America.

The shootings began as soon as Murphy took the floor, shortly after 11 am.

Around that time, a man walked into a medical office in eastern Washington, shot his chiropractor to death, and then killed himself.

Moments later, in Cottontown, Tennessee, two men were gunned down in an apparent home intrusion.

"When the neighbor heard gun shots ... she didn't think anything about it because the neighbor was a gun person and liked to shoot," a sheriff told the local news.

While Murphy and other senators were on the Hill eulogizing those killed in the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando Sunday, 13 people were shot in Chicago over the span of several hours — including a young man who was killed while recording a Facebook Live video on the street.

 
Around 1 pm in Las Vegas, a 20-year-old man was shot in the head. Neighbors were frightened by the incident, including a little boy. "I want to take my son to the pool today but he's too scared," his mother told reporters.

As the filibuster stretched into its penultimate hour — and while Murphy was delivering a moving tribute to a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 — three young men in Detroit were barraged by 30 bullets in a drive-by. Only one of them survived, and he is in critical condition.

By the end of the 15-hour filibuster, 48 people had been injured or killed in 38 shootings across 21 states.

During the filibuster, there was a shooting every 23 minutes

Earlier this week, we reported that on the same day of the Orlando massacre — the largest mass shooting in US history — there were 42 other shootings across the country.

Using data from the Gun Violence Archive and Vox, we pieced together a timeline of the reported shootings that occurred in America during the filibuster. (Note: Some news stories did not include specific times; in these cases, we made estimates based on the time of the report.)

Below, we screen-capped the approximate moment from the filibuster at which each shooting occurred.






According to Gun Violence Archive data, an average of 36 people are killed by guns every day in America. A Vox analysis revealed that 1,065 Americans have been killed in mass shootings since January 2013 alone — and that only includes incidents involving four or more people, not the myriad of much smaller gun deaths that occur every day.

The filibuster was a call to action — a response to what many Americans feel has been political inaction.

"The failure of this body to do anything — anything at all — in the face of that continued slaughter isn't just painful to us, it's unconscionable," Sen. Murphy said on the floor.

And as he stood, decrying America's gun violence problem, 48 people were shot.

[sushi]

Which is why I'm still disheartened that both of the bills wouldnt really address these types of shootings. Background check, maybe. I hope.

[downtoearth]

I know that's one in our state was a domestic violence, drunk guy who shot at police and then was killed by police returning fire, but damn that is too many in 15 hours!

[ttt]

Jun 16, 2016 19:14:18 GMT -5 sushi said:

Which is why I'm still disheartened that both of the bills would really address these types of shootings. Background check, maybe. I hope.

No, but at least it's a start. And at least finally, somebody in Congress is standing up and saying "this is not acceptable."

[elleblue]

I feel sick, sad, and angry.

[sushi]

Jun 16, 2016 19:18:10 GMT -5 ttt said:

Jun 16, 2016 19:14:18 GMT -5 sushi said:

Which is why I'm still disheartened that both of the bills would really address these types of shootings. Background check, maybe. I hope.

No, but at least it's a start. And at least finally, somebody in Congress is standing up and saying "this is not acceptable."

I don't disagree. I just have mixed feelings about it.

[WanderingWinoZ]

what's even worse, there is not actualy national database, so these are just media reported shootings...there were likely more.

[EllieArroway]

Jun 16, 2016 19:22:50 GMT -5 WanderingWinoZ said:

what's even worse, there is not actualy national database, so these are just media reported shootings...there were likely more.

I know of at least one more, if we're counting suicide by guns...

[WanderingWinoZ]

Jun 16, 2016 19:24:38 GMT -5 EllieArroway said:

Jun 16, 2016 19:22:50 GMT -5 WanderingWinoZ said:

what's even worse, there is not actualy national database, so these are just media reported shootings...there were likely more.

I know of at least one more, if we're counting suicide by guns...

I'm sorry

Suicides are almost always the forgotten victims of gun violence...

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Jun 16, 2016 19:24:38 GMT -5 EllieArroway said:

Jun 16, 2016 19:22:50 GMT -5 WanderingWinoZ said:

what's even worse, there is not actualy national database, so these are just media reported shootings...there were likely more.

I know of at least one more, if we're counting suicide by guns...

I have serious concerns about the no-fly list ban because it both seems too broad (hitting people who are mistakenly on the list) and too narrow (most shooters are not and never would be on the list). But I'm still glad they're talking about SOME gun control.

And yeah, suicide is never far from my mind on this issue. Just reducing the number of guns in circulation is a net positive IMO.

[mbcdefg]

Lord - 7 in Chicago alone.

[7costanza]

I'm so fucking sick of this. I'm glad positive steps are being taken but I wish it was more.

[cookiemdough]

I feel like we are on the verge of lawlessness.

[ECB]

Jun 16, 2016 20:55:59 GMT -5 7costanza said:

I'm so fucking sick of this. I'm glad positive steps are being taken but I wish it was more.

But as long as the NRA has the power that they have....

I'm just floored by the NRA, TBH.  I know that in the end, this is all about $$ to them.  But I just don't get the utter lack of willingness to be REASONABLE.  This staunch "don't take our guns!!!".  MOST people aren't looking to do that.  MOST people just want REASONABLE measures put into place.

But no- they try to make it all about "don't take our guns!!!!!". 

Ugh ugh ugh.  

[miniroller]

You're absolutely right ECB. The lawmakers are getting their pockets heavily lined by the NRA, which is so corrupt & NOT at all what our founding fathers were intending with creation of the fourth amendment. It makes me so very sad; I truly can't imagine the sadness of someone affected by a gun death.