184 Killed, 464 injured from Gun Violence over Independence Weekend

This year America had a particularly bloody Independence weekend.

The Daily Caller reported, Gun violence over the Fourth of July weekend resulted in 184 people killed and 464 injured across the United States, according to data from Gun Violence Archive.

The data shows injuries and homicides caused by gun violence during a 72-hour period, from the evening of Friday, July 2 to the evening of Monday, July 5, according to Gun Violence Archive data.

#CrimeIsDown

In spite of @Chicagosmayor’s exhortation that year-over-year and month-over-month crime in #Chicago is decreasing, the streets continue to scream their own statistics

Approaching 100 shot for the #4thofJuly weekend

Via @w_h_thompson and https://t.co/yh0n361Jvf pic.twitter.com/SWLGbLwq8S

— WindyCity Weather and News (@WindyCityWxMan) July 5, 2021

Chicago was one of the bloodiest cities over the weekend, after Mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed that crime in the Windy City was actually on the decline. 

In Chicago 13 people were killed and 64 were injured in the violent spree of weekend shootings on our nations birthday. 

New York and Baltimore were also hot spots for violent crime. 7 were killed in the Big Apple with 40 were injured. In Baltimore 3 died and 6 were injured. 

There were 400 shootings across the USA this 4th of July weekend. Fully a quarter of them were in Chicago.

This is out of control.

The saying is that even a broken clock is right twice a day… TFG was right about violent crime in Chicago. There is way, way too much of it.

— SleepyT11 ???? (@T11Sleepy) July 6, 2021

Polls from July 2nd show that Americans are divided on how to combat the crime surge in cities across the union. 

The very same poll also shows that the up-tick in crime is having disaster out effects on Joe Biden’s approval ratings. 

Police departments from coast to coast are understaffed as a result of falling recruitment. This is undoubtedly has a cause and effect relationship with the crime surge.