Interactive map shows two states went gun crazy after attempted assassination at Trump rally

More than 200 Americans were killed or wounded by gunfire in the two days between the attempt on Donald Trump’s life and the former President’s first public appearance.

Trump , 78, was struck in the ear by a would-be assassin's bullet at about 6pm during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13. Two days later he made his first public appearance to rapturous applause at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

In that short space of time, 58 Americans were shot dead and 166 injured according to data provided by the Gun Violence Archive , a not-for-profit corporation formed in 2013 to provide free online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the United States.

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The GVA has reported 180 shootings on its website in the two days between the moment a lone sniper fired on the former president and Trump’s his first public address.

That includes a 39-year-old victim who received multiple gunshot wounds less than two hours before Trump took to the stage and within about six miles of the Fiserv Forum arena in Milwaukee where an enthusiastic crowd of Republicans greeted him.

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During that time, the bloodiest shooting took place at a nightclub in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday night. Four people were killed and 10 injured after at least one suspect fired shots into the nightclub from the street.

In those two days, there were shootings in 35 of 52 states and territories. Ohio saw the most incidents, with 19 separate shootings . Ohio is among the most lenient states for gun control with no requirement for a permit, background check, or firearms registration when buying a handgun from a private individual. It is legal to carry a gun either openly or concealed.

Seven shootings took place in Pennsylvania in the hours after the attempted assassination in Butler .

But Illinois and Alabama had the most casualties with 23 in each state, with Alabama seeing the highest number of people killed due to gun violence with seven. Alabama has similar gun control restrictions to Ohio, but a permit is required to carry a handgun.

All the shootings happened after Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old kitchen worker, armed himself with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, crawled along the roof of a building facing Trump’s rally in Butler, and opened fire.

A Secret Service sniper returned fire and killed him, but not before Crooks injured Trump . Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old former fire chief, died at the scene and two other men were injured.

The assassination or attempted assassination of previous presidents has led to tighter gun control in the past. The murder of President John F Kennedy in 1963 eventually led to the Gun Control Act of 1968; while the attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life in 1981 led to the Brady Act - although it wasn’t made law until 1993 with the support of the Clinton Administration.

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But it is unlikely that the assassination attempt on Trump will lead to any change in gun control laws. Professor David Smith of the US Studies Centre and the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney believes that “for Trump’s supporters, his survival may fit a pro-gun narrative”.

Writing in The Conversation after the assassination attempt, Professor Smith, Associate Professor in American Politics, said: “The mantra that ‘the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun’ is not a call to end gun violence. It’s a call to embrace gun violence as natural, and to be on the winning side of it.”

He added that “ Trump has created an iconic picture of survival and triumph” while his would-be assassin “was killed in seconds by the Secret Service”.