Hate to on this Sunday feature killings, but the USA had another  mass shooting yesterday , in Birmingham, Alabama.   Four were killed and more than 20 injured.   Authorities are not sure who or how many were responsible.   No suspects yet.  You can be pardoned for not even knowing this happened, for something similar occurs all the time. There have been more than 400 mass shootings in the U.S. this year. The  FBI defines mass shooting  as an event in which one or more individuals are actively engaged in killing or attempting kill people in a populated area.  Implicit is the use of firearm.  Usually needs to have at last three deaths. ONE THIRD of all the world's public mass shootings between 1966 and 2012 occurred in the U.S.  Size of circle indicates relative number of shootings. Not sure why that period ended more than twelve years ago, but that was from  Wikipedia , and until 2012 there have been 4,011 mass shooti...

  My China series continues today, but first, a few comments on mass shootings in the USA.  From the   New York Times   this morning: If anything, the chart, which uses data from 2017 and 2018, understates America’s problem. The U.S. rate of gun homicides has increased in recent years, according to the Small Arms Survey. The data exposes a clear trend: Where there are more guns, there are more gun deaths. Studies have found this to be true at the state and national level, and for homicides, suicides, mass shootings and   police shootings . Stricter regulations on firearms   are linked to fewer gun deaths . The latest  Lunar New Year Monterey Park incident was the  33rd Mass Shooting of 2023 .   The month isn't yet over.   Eleven killed, and the deadliest in the U.S. since the May 2022 Uvalde, Texas tragedy.  There were  647 of these last year, and more than 44,000 people  in the country died due to gun violence. ...