10 people have been killed in a mass shooting in Boulder in Colorado State. This incident puts the focus on gun violence, the intractable scourge of the US that is deeply rooted in ideology.
Boulder Police chief Maris Herold identified the shooter as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, who is a 21-year-old man involved in the shooting on Monday evening. This was informed by the Police chief in a news conference on Tuesday.
The shooting took place at a supermarket. This happened after another mass shooting case happened in Atlanta last Tuesday in which 8 people got killed including 6 Asian women.
Alissa was taken into custody by police and was taken to the hospital after that and was said to be in a stable condition. He has been charged with 10 murders but did not provide any motive. The motive will be investigated by the FBI.
One of the people killed in Boulder was a police officer.
19,223 people were killed in the US in shootings last year the number increased by 25% over the previous year. This data is according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, a Democrat Senator said ‘We face a pandemic of coronavirus. We have another epidemic in America called guns’.
This shooting called for stricter laws in the US to control gun violence.
The Atlanta shooter, a 21-year-old white man admitted to the police that he had a sex addiction and shot the massage places to root out the source of temptation for him.
