America endures 7 mass shootings in 48 hours

US: Following a string of horrific shootings around the country in recent weeks, a bipartisan group of senators say they’ve never been more “serious” about stopping America’s gun violence epidemic.

“I’ve never been part of negotiations as serious as these,” Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut said on Sunday. “There are more Republicans at the table talking about changing our gun laws and investing in mental health than at any time since Sandy Hook.”

Action can’t come soon enough after at least 10 people were killed and 49 injured across seven different mass shootings in the last 48 hours. And calls for change across the country are intensifying.

In the early hours on Sunday, three were killed and 14 injured outside a bar in Chattanooga, Tennessee. One of the victims was hit by a car fleeing the chaos. The shooting was just over a week after another gun incident in the city wounded six teenagers.

Across the country in Mesa, Arizona, another two people were killed and two injured on Sunday morning at a nightclub parking lot shooting. Saturday night was even deadlier.

In Summerton, South Carolina, one person was killed and seven people, many of them teenagers, were injured during a suspected drive-by shooting at a graduation party.

On that same night, in Philadelphia, police believe multiple shooters killed three people and injured 11 as shots rang out in the city’s South Street district, a popular area filled with bars and restaurants.

In Macon, Georgia, a 19-year-old was shot and killed, and three more were hospitalised in an incident at an abandoned house.

And in eerie echo of past shootings, another graduation party, this one in Socorro, Texas, was shot up on Saturday, wounding five teenagers and traumatising the nearly 100 children inside the house where it occurred. – YAHOO NEWS