Two shootings, two hours apart in Charlotte, North Carolina
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The miserable situation of gun violence in the US lives on by the hour.
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Police officers after a shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina, March 23, 2021 (Anadolu Agency)
According to WSOC TV, in separate shooting incidents only 2 hours apart, two people have been reportedly shot dead within the same city in the US.
Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, received reports of a deadly weapon assault, only to find a victim with multiple gunshot wounds, dying later in a hospital.
Just two hours later, police reported another deadly weapon assault in another neighborhood in the same city. Police found a victim who was suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim was announced dead at the scene, according to the police.
Washington continues to struggle with violent crime and mass shootings due to its loose gun laws and supremacist grounds for such violence.
Firearm sales soared to record levels between 2020 and 2021, matching up to the increase in victims and shootings the country is grappling with today. There are over 45,000 deaths from gun violence each year in the United States.
See more: 2021: Gun Violence Surges in the US
Last month, US President Joe Biden pleaded for lawmakers to pass stricter gun control laws, including a ban on assault weapons, in a bid to clamp down on unprecedented levels of mass shootings across the United States that have been turning American communities into "killing fields".
Biden called on members of Congress to pass tougher laws just a day after a mass shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over a week after a school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, and almost three weeks after a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York City.
In July, New York lawmakers adopted a broad revamp of the state's handgun licensing requirements on Friday, hoping to keep certain restrictions on weapons in place after the US Supreme Court ruled that American citizens have the fundamental right to carry arms in public.
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