{"id":584314,"date":"2021-07-06T17:06:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T21:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=584314"},"modified":"2021-07-06T17:06:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T21:06:32","slug":"bloody-fourth-of-july-weekend-sees-more-than-150-killed-400-wounded-in-gun-violence-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bloody-fourth-of-july-weekend-sees-more-than-150-killed-400-wounded-in-gun-violence-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bloody\u2019 Fourth Of July Weekend Sees More Than 150 Killed, 400 Wounded In Gun Violence Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbloody-fourth-of-july-weekend-sees-more-than-150-killed-400-wounded-in-gun-violence-nationwide%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=584314&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3108.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>More than 150 people were killed and more than 400 wounded in a \u201cbloody\u201d Fourth of July weekend as many of America\u2019s major cities struggled to address a worsening epidemic of gun violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/05\/us\/us-shootings-july-fourth-weekend\/index.html\">CNN, which reported the latest numbers Tuesday afternoon<\/a>, noted that the death toll could be even higher. According to the network, \u201c233 people were killed and 618 people were injured by gun violence in more than 500 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend, a 26% drop from last year\u2019s holiday weekend, according to the latest data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to data released Tuesday morning, which looks at shootings from 5 p.m. Friday through Monday, there were 314 fatal shootings with 751 injuries during the same period last year, the GVA said,\u201d per CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The network was quick to note, though, that the number of people killed over the Independence Day weekend in 2021, was less than the number of people killed over the same weekend in 2020 when most major cities experienced a record-breaking spike in gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>New York City and Chicago, Illinois \u2014 two cities that saw such record-breaking violence in 2020 \u2014 were among those that saw a spike in gun violence over Independence Day 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u2018In New York City, at least 35 people were shot in 29 shooting incidents from Friday through Monday, with at least two of the incidents resulting in deaths, the NYPD said. Overall, at least four murders occurred in the city,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/july-fourth-weekend-gun-violence\">Fox News noted Tuesday<\/a>. \u201cDuring the same period last year, the NYPD recorded 55 shooting incidents, 78 shooting victims, and 16 homicides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chicago actually saw more homicides over the 2021 holiday than it did in 202o, according to the latest numbers. Two police officers and at least two children were among the weekend\u2019s wounded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\" readability=\"17.137533274179\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \" readability=\"29.514640638864\">\n<p class=\" \" data-page=\"1\" data-item-type=\"depthscroll\" data-item-id=\"depth_scroll_top\" data-item-number=\"top\">\u201cAt least 108 people were shot in Chicago over the long Independence Day weekend, including two police officers; children, including 5- and 6-year-old girls; and a group of six people early Monday in the Washington Park neighborhood \u2014 where a man was killed hours later in an unrelated shooting,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/criminal-justice\/ct-independence-day-weekend-shootings-violence-20210705-krc6q7g7o5grzit3qpoavxlr3e-story.html\">the Chicago Tribune reported<\/a>. \u201cHe was one of at least 17 people who died from injuries suffered in shootings from about 5 p.m. Friday to just after 1 a.m. Tuesday, according to police information and Tribune data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-page=\"1\" data-item-type=\"depthscroll\" data-item-id=\"depth_scroll_top\" data-item-number=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/shootings-gun-violence-180-people-killed-4th-july-weekend\/\">CBS News added the numbers<\/a>. In&nbsp;2019, \u201c68 people were shot,\u201d and in 2020, \u201cnearly 80 people were shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-page=\"1\" data-item-type=\"depthscroll\" data-item-id=\"depth_scroll_top\" data-item-number=\"top\">The network reported Tuesday that it seems the rate of violence is actually increasing, even though raw numbers seem to show crime dropping off from 2020.<\/p>\n<p data-page=\"1\" data-item-type=\"depthscroll\" data-item-id=\"depth_scroll_top\" data-item-number=\"top\">\u201cAlthough official data has yet to be released by the federal government, a&nbsp;survey&nbsp;of law enforcement agencies in dozens of U.S. cities conducted by the Major Cities Chiefs Association found a higher rate of homicides and aggravated assaults in January through March of 2021 <span class=\"link\">compared with the same time&nbsp;<\/span>period in 2020,\u201d CBS News said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cities like Chicago have begged the White House for help in handling the spike in crime \u2014 and particularly the spike in gun violence \u2014 but the Biden administration has limited its assistance to help in pushing increased gun control at the federal level.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/member\">a member<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 150 people were killed and more than 400 wounded in a \u201cbloody\u201d Fourth of July weekend as many of America\u2019s major cities struggled to address a worsening epidemic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314110,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3108.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Bloody\u2019 Fourth Of July Weekend Sees More Than 150 Killed, 400 Wounded In Gun Violence Nationwide","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3108.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Bloody\u2019 Fourth Of July Weekend Sees More Than 150 Killed, 400 Wounded In Gun Violence Nationwide","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}