U.S. partisan divide as mass shooting increase

The Hill on Tuesday reported that the chasm between U.S. congressional lawmakers over the gun issue has deepened after each mass shooting.

According to reports, democrats believe there should be "fewer guns in fewer hands," for the sake of protecting the public from violent outbursts they consider preventable.

Republicans, however, are more likely to view gun rights as sacrosanct and any effort to restrict them as unconstitutional.

"Their answer to the latest massacre is not fewer guns but more of them, particularly in schools,'' the report said.

The impasse has meant that thousands of mass shootings have taken place in recent years with virtually no legislative response from Congress.

"The stalemate has infuriated gun reform advocates, who are all but accusing Republicans of being complicit in murder for their rejection of tougher gun laws," it added.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have already been more than 240 mass shootings this year in the United States.

At least 33 shootings have taken place since a rampage at an elementary school in Uvalde, Tex left 19 children and two teachers dead on May 24.

Just this past weekend, mass shootings in multiple cities killed 11 and wounded more than 60.

Mass shootings, where four or more people not including the shooter are injured or killed, have averaged more than one per day so far this year.

Not a single week in 2022 has passed without at least four mass shootings according to Gun Violence Archive.

Mass shootings have been on the rise in recent years.

In 2021, almost 700 such incidents occurred, a jump from 611 in 2020 and 417 in 2019.

Before that, incidents had not topped 400 annually since the Gun Violence Archive started tracking in 2014.