Baltimore Criminologist Says City Suffers From “Gun Epidemic”

This week alone, Baltimore has seen several shootings—including two mass shootings in a single day. The violence includes the murder of a pregnant woman and her fiancé. “We have in the United States, along with a homicide epidemic, we have a gun epidemic,” University Of Baltimore Criminologist Jeffrey Ross told WJZ. The Baltimore Police Department on Friday provided the public with a glimpse of some of the guns its officers had recovered while attempting to reduce crime in the city. “These are just a few of the weapons & drugs officers recovered in the past seven days,” authorities said in a press statement.