A gunman is suspected of killing at least five people and injuring six more at Old National Bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning.
Gunshots were still being fired when police arrived at the scene, where they found the gunman dead. He has yet to be identified, and it’s not clear how he died or what his motive was.
Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear tweeted that he was heading to the scene, which is near the minor league baseball stadium Louisville Slugger Field. “Please pray for all of the families impacted and for the city of Louisville,” he said.
The incident in downtown Louisville is America’s 146th mass shooting — an incident during which four or more people are shot, as defined by the Gun Violence Archive — since the beginning of 2023. It follows mass shootings at Covenant School in Nashville, at Michigan State University, at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, California, and at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, California.
These shootings come in the wake of numerous others last year including at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia; at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado; on a school bus allegedly targeting members of the University of Virginia football team; a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois; at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma; at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas; and at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
No other high-income country has suffered such a high death toll from gun violence. Every day, 120 Americans die at the end of a gun, including suicides and homicides, an average of 43,475 per year. Since 2009, there has been an annual average of 19 shootings in which at least four people are killed. The US gun homicide rate is as much as 26 times that of other high-income countries; its gun suicide rate is nearly 12 times higher.
Gun control opponents have typically framed the gun violence epidemic in the US as a symptom of a broader mental health crisis. But every country…
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