Brooklyn subway shooting: Promises aren’t enough! Has Joe Biden failed to curb gun violence in the US?

Stricter Gun control laws have been a pertinent demand for the 21st century US and hopes were up after Joe Biden, an ardent gun-control advocate, took oath as the President with a trail of lofty promises regarding curbing fire-arms violence and easy licensing in the states.

However, after hundreds of shootings after January 2021, especially the most recent Brooklyn Subway Shooting that left three dead and over 20 injured, the US seems to be standing in a worse position than where it started.

Going by the numbers, the mass shooting and violence involving firearms have only risen from 2020 to 2021, leaving gun control advocates and Biden supporters disappointed and wondering if America’s gun violence epidemic is a dead-end street?

Gun violence in the US- by the numbers

According to the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), there were more than 45,000 gun deaths in 2020, during Trump’s rule, out of which more than 24,200 were suicides.

According to the latest updates by Gun Violence Archive, an online archive tracking gun violence incidents in the US since 2013, firearm violence incidents, especially mass shootings set records in almost all aspects in 2021, after Biden’s entry.

As of December 31, 2021, some 44,750 deaths, resulting from gun violence including 20,660 homicides and 24,090 suicides were reported in the US among them 1,533 were children and teens under 17, suggested Gun Violence Archive data.