(National Urban League) – I want to start by validating your anxiety about the state of our country. The violence we see in the morning, noon and night is not normal.
To date, America has seen 357 mass shootings in 2025 alone; a rate that exceeds one per day.
In the last two weeks alone, we witnessed a mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis that claimed the lives of two children and injured 21 others, and the violent murder of an influencer. Both incidents have spread like wildfire on social media platforms that have repeatedly failed to curb hate speech and violent rhetoric…