Insights into the Texas Mass Shooting and its Aftermath.

A gunman killed five people in a rural Texas community last week, prompting shock waves of fear and grief. The attack became one of the latest in an incessant wave of gun violence across the nation. So far this year, the Gun Violence Archive has tallied 192 mass shootings in the United States. Gun violence experts blamed the availability of guns, misconceptions about stand-your-ground laws, the marketing of firearms for self-defense, and growing fears among Americans about deteriorating safety, regardless of reality.