Sunday, April 16

All of today's big news is about violence, unfortunately, so young children and violence-sensitive adults may not want to read this update.

Over 85 people are dead and over 1,100 injured after the second day of conflict in Sudan, where the Sudanese Army and Rapid Support Force battling for control of the East African country. It all started in 2021, when the military overthrew the government in a coup, and decided on a power-sharing arrangement between two big military leaders. But now, any peace between the two men has evaporated, and they are both now leading two separate forces against each other for control of Sudan.

On another sad note, ten more mass shootings have just taken place, this time in Dadeville, Alabama; two in Louisville, Kentucky; Pope County, Minnesota; La Palma, Mexico; Nyssa, Oregon; Portland, Oregon; Chicago, Illinois; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Biloxi, Mississippi.

In downtown Dadeville on Saturday night, a Sweet 16 birthday party was taking place when a shooter marched onto the scene, killing four teens and injuring almost 30 others. The suspect is still at large.

The same day, shots were fired into a crowd in Louisville, killing two people and injuring four others, and another person was hospitalized after a shooting in the neighborhood of Shelby Park. These are the second and third mass shootings in the city within a week, with another shooting taking place on Monday at the Old National Bank, killing five. The suspects have also not been found.

Then, on the same night, the police deputy was killed in Pope County, in western Minnesota, during a shootout while tracking down a suspected gunman. Another deputy and officer were injured as well.

In La Palma, a town in central Mexico, seven people were killed at a resort, including a child, by a band of gunmen who entered, fully armed.

Also, on the same night, a police officer in Nyssa, Oregon, was killed in the line of duty while chasing down a suspect. However, the suspect has not been found.

Then, a woman was killed in her apartment by a man who arrived at the complex with a gun, and witnesses say that she survived, but then succumbed to the pain later and died in their arms.

A shooting also took place in downtown Chicago, near Millennium Park, injuring two teens, who were shot by sixteen-year-old boy who was part of a large group of young adults that were "engaging in reckless and disruptive behavior" on the same night as the Dadeville, Pope County, and Louisville shootings.

Lastly, a combined seven people were also injured after gunmen opened fire in a park in uptown Charlotte and near Surf Style in Biloxi.

And this all comes right after the National Rifle Association (NRA) national convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, where photos of kids, as young as six years old, handling deactivated guns have been circulating around social media. These photos then prompted serious backlash from many people. One parent said, "The NRA hopes to push 'gun extremism' onto the next generation," and later talked about how she thought that the NRA's goal was never to teach children about being responsible with guns, but to market and introduce guns and gun extremism to the next generation.