SHERO on Sunday

Welcome to a lightning-fast comprehensive recap of the week's biggest events for September 16th-22nd, 2024.

Weapons stockpile of the 11 year-old boy who was arrested this week for threatening to murder other students at his Volusia Middle School in Florida. (Photo via YouTube screen grab)

Welcome to the Sunday Recap, where you can quickly check in to review the week with a minimal time commitment, and make sure you did not miss anything. There are also several links within each snippet to give you more detail from credible and free sources if you want to dive deeper on any issue.

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Gun Violence This Week

There were nine separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where 13 people were killed and 46 were injured. Here at SHERO, we document all mass shooting incidents for the week every Sunday, so please take a moment to review them and remember to keep up the fight for sensible gun reform. 

1. Sunday, September 15, 2024: Florissant, Missouri

2. Monday, September 16, 2024: Chicago, Illinois

3. Wednesday, September 18, 2024: Saint Louis, Missouri

4. Wednesday, September 18, 2024: Minneapolis, Minnesota

5. Friday, September 20, 2024: Phoenix, Arizona

6. Friday, September 20, 2024: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

7. Saturday, September 21, 2024: Birmingham, Alabama

8. Saturday, September 21, 2024: Brooklyn, New York

9. Saturday, September 21, 2024: Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for Governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery.

• In spite of Americans paying nearly double that of other countries, the United States health system ranked dead last in an international comparison of 10 peer nations, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund.