Here are the facts as we know them as of this past weekend:

There was another shooting – the 250th of the year.

Aug. 4: Dayton, Ohio: mass shooting in historic district, 9 dead, 27 injured.

Aug. 3: El Paso, Texas: mass shooting in Walmart, 22 dead, 24 injured.

Aug. 2: Pomfred, Md.: domestic shooting, three dead, 1 injured.

Aug. 2: Suffolk, Va.: multiple crime scenes, two dead, three injured.

Mass shootings in the United States this year, according to the Gun Violence Archives include:

January: 28 mass shootings, 50 killed, 86 wounded.

February: 22 mass shootings, 38 killed, 68 wounded.

March: 21 mass shootings, 13 killed, 89 wounded.

April: 34 mass shootings, 23 killed, 136 wounded.

May: 43 mass shootings, 38 killed, 181 wounded.

June: 48 mass shootings, 34 killed, 217 wounded.

July: 52 mass shootings, 50 killed, 202 wounded.

These shootings are senseless. I don’t want to hear, “thoughts and prayers …”

Somebody.Do.Something.

Debbie Galbraith

editor

East Penn Press

Salisbury Press