More than 3 times as many preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers.

[onehandle]

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"More preschoolers are shot dead each year (82 in 2013) than police officers in the line of duty (27 in 2013)."

https://twitter.com/briansacca/status/650419540560482304

Source:

'If that doesn’t make you flinch, consider this: In America, more preschoolers are shot dead each year (82 in 2013) than police officers are in the line of duty (27 in 2013), according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FBI.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-a-new-way-to-tackle-gun-deaths.html

[LuvNewcastle]

1. That is fucked up!

[Snobblevitch]

2. There a lot more preschoolers than there are police officers.

I wish there were fewer deaths in either group.

[Shankapotomus]

11. But it's the job of the police to risk their lives

to save people.

The police are failing.

[Snobblevitch]

12. Only a tiny oercentage are 'failing'.

The vast majority do a tough job and do it well.

[Justice]

15. What the heck?

What does it matter how many preschoolers there are versus police.

[ileus]

3. On your person or lock it up...

If it's not on your person it can't save lives, if it's not locked up it could become a hazard to anyone.

[mhatrw]

4. That's why need to arm the preschoolers.

[JonathanRackham]

5. Demographics

Where and by whom? Wherein the answer lies the solution.

[Skittles]

7. please explain that response

[JonathanRackham]

10. Sociology 101

It's homework.

[uponit7771]

6. +1

[YabaDabaNoDinoNo]

8. So what? We as a society have chosen guns over lives. Dead Children, Dead Cops and

random people shot by gun owners is a small price to pay for the right to own guns!

What we need to start saying when someone is shot....

'Oh well that is the price of freedom' and move on.

This is the America we the people created, learn to deal with it.

Investing in the funeral business would be wise advice if you want to make some coin off of freedom.

[JonathanRackham]

9. Wrong.

Nobody wants to deal with the root problem. Violence is only the answer of last resort. It's a quick and impulsive reaction for years of otherwise social failure. It's the ultimate CTRL- ALT-DEL.

From a social standpoint the world is becoming simple and wants fast answers for complex problems.

We have a right to life and liberty but don't want to apply the difficult solutions to resolve the base problems. We apply violence as the easy impulsive last resort frustration answer.

Think deep brother.

[YabaDabaNoDinoNo]

14. Sorry nope the people want a high body count, else something would have changed already. Mass

Shooting deaths since Newton have exceed the number of US dead in Vietnam

Face it America prefers dead kids and mass shootings over all else

[snooper2]

13. not true but false memes work for some