Experts blame a cocktail of factors - including a growing sense of danger - for a spate of shootings around homes.
A Texas man went next door with a rifle and began shooting his neighbours after the family asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard because their baby was sleeping.
Among those killed was Phil Dowdell,a high school senior who planned to play college football,and who was celebrating his sister’s 16th birthday.
A bank building in downtown Louisville,Kentucky,has become the scene of America’s latest mass shooting.
“We called for you all to ban assault weapons,and you respond with an assault on democracy,” said representative Justin Jones before being kicked out of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Representative Jamaal Bowman,a former middle school principal,told reporters that Republicans were “gutless” for not backing gun control laws after this week’s shooting.
I loved the US. Now,I wouldn’t take a Green Card if it came with a bag of cash and a date with George Clooney.
In an apparent suicide message minutes before the rampage,28-year-old Audrey Hale wrote an Instagram note to a former school basketball teammate that declared:“I’m planning to die today.”
The attacker,who police said identified as transgender,wielded two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol in the latest US mass shooting,police said.
The first-time congressman represents the Tennessee district that includes the school where a 28-year-old has killed at least six people.
The gunman killed six people and then himself when he opened fire in Hamburg. Eight other people were wounded,including a woman who lost her unborn daughter.