2021 on track to be America's deadliest year of gun violence in two decades

2021 is on pace to be America's deadliest year of gun violence in the last two decades. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 296 mass shootings in the United States this year. A mass shooting is defined as a shooting that results in the killing of 4 or more people. America had been going through one of its safest periods in decades.

President Biden announced a new strategy to combat it on Wednesday. It includes a "zero tolerance" policy for gun dealers who break federal law, deploying strike teams to cities to crack down on illegal gun trafficking, and encouraging communities to use federal pandemic relief funds for policing and crime prevention. Surveillance video captured Gyovanny Arzuaga and Yasmin Perez being ambushed last Saturday in Chicago. Police said the shooting happened after a minor car accident. Perez was pulled from the car, beaten, and shot. When Arzuaga tried to save her, he was gunned down "almost execution-style."