From China Daily (and Washington Post and LA Times.)
MONTEVIDEO - Mass shootings in the United States over the weekend led Uruguay's government to issue a travel warning to its citizens on Monday.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry cautioned parents in particular about the potential dangers to children, given the rise in "indiscriminate violence, mostly due to hate crimes".
Gun violence in the United States has taken "the life of more than 250 people in the first seven months of this year," the ministry said in a statement.
"Since it has been impossible for the (US) authorities to prevent these situations due, among other things, to the public's indiscriminate possession of fire arms, we especially recommend avoiding places where crowds gather," the ministry said.
The administration of President Tabare Vazquez provided a list of places or events deemed to be of high risk, including theme parks, shopping centers, arts fairs, religious activities, culinary festivals and other types of crowded cultural or sporting events.
On Saturday, August 3rd, 22 people were killed by a gunman in El Paso, Texas.
On the same day 13 hours later, a gunman in Dayton, Ohio killed 9 people and injured 27, in 60 seconds.
On the same day, 7 people were killed and 46 wounded in Chicago, Illinois, 25 of them within a 4 hour period.
On the same day, in Wisconsin a car plowed through a crowd of people protesting gun violence.
These are the gun stories that did not dominate the national news, but occurred the same weekend.
In bloody August weekend, gun violence beyond mass shootings
On Friday, military officials announced that a Navy sailor had been shot and killed after fleeing a traffic stop on Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, Virginia, according to the Associated Press.
An infant in Shreveport, Louisiana, was shot and killed Saturday in a drive-by shooting, according to the ABC News affiliate KATC. Shreveport Police said a vehicle drove by and began shooting into a home, striking the one-month-old girl, who was pronounced dead.
In Maryland, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office said on Saturday, officers responded to a call that a 42-year-old southern Maryland man had shot and killed his in-laws. Police said relatives arrived and the suspect Mark Hughes then shot at an 11-year-old boy, who fled the scene and was later treated for injuries that were not life-threatening, and then Hughes fled himself.
Hughes was later found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the sheriff's office.
A few hours later in Florida, Pinellas County Sheriff deputies shot and killed a 35-year-old man after police said he had pointed a 12-guage shotgun at them. The man was a suspect in the fatal shooting of his mother, according to the sheriff's office.