A Country Descending Into Violence

During the weekend of May 7 through May 9, 2021, nine mass shootings took place in the U.S. resulting in the deaths of 15 people. Thirty others were wounded. Over this weekend in Chicago, 20 people were shot, five fatally. So far in 2021, 1,042 people have been shot in that city. At five in the afternoon of Saturday May 8, 2021, a gunman in New York City's Times Square randomly shot a 4-year-old girl and two women bystanders. The victims were expected to survive their wounds. This same weekend in New York City, a tourist was stabbed with a screwdriver in the subway by a homeless man. This victim was expected to survive the random assault. All of this is taking place during a time many politicians want to defund the police, eliminate bail, open the southern border, and let violent inmates out of prison early.