These are just a few photos of the children who were slaughtered yesterday.
This country is sick.
I blame the politicians who refuse to do anything about this sickness.
President Clinton banned the sale of AR-15s. That ban lapsed when George Bush became president, and he refused to renew it (as he had promised while campaigning for the presidency).
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Our first line of defense should be sensible red flag laws that allow law enforcement and mental health professionals to intervene. We can protect society while also respecting the rights of people under suspicion.
"The United States Secret Service and the United States Department of Education have studied school violence incidents over the past few decades, and have consistently found that most perpetrators, prior to a shooting, exhibited behavioral warning signs that caused others to be concerned. The most recent study on incidents from 2008 through 2017 found that 100 percent of perpetrators showed concerning behaviors, and in 77 percent of shootings, at least one person—most often a peer—knew about their plan"
https://everytownresearch.org/report/extreme-risk-laws-save-lives/#key-findings
Every country on the planet has people with mental health problems.
BUT THOSE COUNTRIES DO NOT HAVE THE NUMBER OF GUN MASSACRES THAT THE U.S. HAS.
IT'S THE GUNS! IT'S THE GUNS! IT'S THE GUNS!
Deflecting and putting the blame elsewhere is wrong.
IT'S THE GUNS!
You express faulty binary thinking. Enacting sensible red flag laws AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL which states must follow can easily be done. Removing all guns, or even most guns, from the United States is simply not possible without a constitutional amendment.
I understand people who continue to shout IT'S THE GUNS! IT'S THE GUNS! IT'S THE GUNS! but then what explains Norway, Finland, Sweden, Serbia and Switzerland, where gun ownership and laws are similar to the US, but experience less gun violence?
We all need to calm down and find a sensible and feasible way to stop these shootings.
Who's killing all the black kids?
##There were also stark racial disparities. The firearm death rate for Black children was more than four times that of white children, and white children were still more likely to be killed by motor vehicles than guns.
Other black kids... thanks BLM!
More than 5 deaths per 100,000 Americans between the ages of 1 and 19 were due to guns in 2020, the most recent year for which the CDC has data.
That number represents a nearly 30% increase in firearms deaths among children over 2019, according to an analysis of the data published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Inconvenient Lawyer
Here's what I found about Sweden and its gun laws from someone who lived there:
"Here’s how the Swedish system works: Only responsible people are trusted with firearms. Sweden licenses guns in much the same way we license cars and drivers. You can have up to six guns but can get more with special permission.
To apply for a firearm permit you must first take a year-long hunter training program and pass a written and shooting test. You can also apply for a gun permit if you’ve been a member of an established shooting club for six months.
(TEXAS GOVERNOR ABBOTT RECENTLY SIGNED A LAW THAT ALLOWS GUN OWNERSHIP WITHOUT TRAINING OR PERMIT. AND HE BRAGGED ABOUT THAT!)
In addition to undergoing training, Sweden’s gun owners must store their firearms safely. Guns must be locked away in a vault, not stored beneath your car seat or in the nightstand where your kids can find them.
Responsibility in Sweden goes further yet: Convicted of a felony? No guns for you. Beat your wife? No guns. Under a restraining order? No guns. Drive drunk? No guns.
(The gun law does not spell out specific actions that cause a citizen to be "unfit" to have a gun permit. It does say that the police must have a "reasonable cause" to suspend a permit, and these kinds of things might signal that a gun owner is "unfit.")
Nothing even close to the above exists in Texas, for example, which has the highest rate of gun massacres in the country. I wonder why.
HERE ARE THE RULES FOR GUN OWNERSHIP IN NORWAY.
(Again, nothing like this in, for example, Texas, where it's open carry, conceal carry, and you don't need a permit or training to own one.)
The United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, has 46 percent of the world’s civilian-owned guns, according to a 2018 report by the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey. It ranks number one in firearms per capita. The United States also has the highest homicide-by-firearm rate of the world’s most-developed nations.
Inconvenient Lawyer,
"Removing all guns, or even most guns, from the United States is simply not possible without a constitutional amendment."
No one suggested this. That's a strawman argument.
We had a ban on firearms such as the AR-15. We can ban them again.
Minus Eff Jay
That comment has nothing to do with the massacre of grammar school children whose bodies were so maimed and brutally lacerated that DNA has to be used for the parents to ID them.
I'm surprised you didn't bring up gays, AIDS, and monkey pox, your second favorite punching bag (BLM and African-Americans are your first) in order to distract from the current issues.
What happened in Uvalde, Texas, is unique to America, and BLM had nothing to do with it.
Trump rolled back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase guns.
Inconvenient Lawyer
Norway:
Gun control had rarely been much of a political issue in Norway—where gun laws are viewed as tough, but ownership rates are high—until a right-wing extremist killed seventy-seven people in attacks in Oslo and at an island summer camp in 2011. Though Norway ranks fourteenth worldwide in gun ownership, according to the Small Arms Survey, it placed near the bottom in gun homicide rates. (The U.S. rate is roughly forty-four times higher.) Most Norwegian police, like the British, do not carry firearms.
The U.S. is NOT like Norway!
The US is truly excepal... in a not good way. It loves guns more than life itself. And, it is highly delusional and llogica in its thinking reative to guns and the US culture of guns and death. To be more specific it is the US cons/tRumpublicans/the NRA and those getting VERY wealthy off gun and ammo sales that are the responsible parties for our sick obsession with guns.
For you cons with your f'ing heads in the sands I hope one of yours does not die in another mass shooting. Even though you likely wouldn't care if one of my grandchildern were killed in a mass shooting. As long as your right to have an arsonal was protected.
We indeed live in a VERY sick country.
Gun violence is the dark side of American exceptionalism.
It has a violent and racist history, a paranoid gun culture, Militias and white nationalism, systemic racism and poverty fueled crime, a failed war on drugs that fosters both police and criminal violence, a lack of public health and mental health care, and an education system under siege by the radical Right.
Add the NRA and Republican Party and you have the formula of endless violence and death.
No wonder the Russians learned that funding the NRA was a perfect way to undermine our country's democracy and stability from within.
Russia, the NRA(gun manufacturers), and the Republican Party are the only winners.
Everyone else is fair fodder for human sacrifice to the Great American Gun God.
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