The Trenton, New Jersey, mass shooting isn’t getting much national attention. It should.
The shooting was a particularly bad example of everyday gun violence in America.
Twenty-two people were injured and one person was killed during a mass shooting at an art fair in Trenton, New Jersey, over the weekend.
The incident wasn’t what many Americans imagine as a typical mass shooting, in which a lone gunman indiscriminately fires onto a crowd. Instead, it seems to have been a gang-related shootout between multiple gunmen.
According to Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Mihir Zaveri at the New York Times, the shooters fired at each other at the 24-hour Art All Night festival shortly before 3 am — wounding 17 with gunfire, and causing a stampede that injured five more.
The person killed, 32-year-old Tahaij Wells, was reportedly one of the gunmen and killed by police. Another shooter was hospitalized, and yet another was arrested.
The Trenton, New Jersey, mass shooting isn’t getting much national attention. It should.
oh but, a president actually enforcing a law voted on by Congress is more important.