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AndyS's JournalChild shootings are on course to break records, worrying doctors at Cook Children's
Through May of this year, the hospital has treated 35 children for gunshot wounds, in many cases accidental, according to a news release. Accidental or not, gunshot wounds are among the most likely injuries from which children can die.
Two of the 35 children admitted to Cook Children’s died from their wounds, according to the release. In the entirety of 2019, 41 children were admitted for gunshot wounds and five died. In 2020, that number rose to 47 shot and four who died.
Dr. Dan Guzman, an emergency room doctor at Cook Children’s, said in the release he fears that number will continue to rise sharply throughout the summer months. With children out of school and oftentimes at home alone while their parents work, an improperly secured gun can cost a life.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/article252470463.html? (sorry, paywall)
Guns make everything better.
After string of road rage shootings in Dallas-Fort Worth, police talk prevention
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article252454238.html?Dallas has seen a string of road rage assaults. From Friday night to Monday morning, police responded to three shootings related to road rage. On Friday, a driver shot a pregnant woman in the head, Fox 4 News reported, after the driver cut her and her boyfriend off in southeast Dallas. The woman’s baby was delivered safely, but she remained in critical condition. On Sunday, police say a driver opened fire along a road in Dallas and hit two cars. One person was shot in the hand.
An armed society is a polite society. At least that's what I've been told by the gun industry. Guns make everything better.
14 -- the number of school shootings since March
14 — the number of school shootings since March, when many districts returned to in-person classes. That’s the most in that period since at least 1999, though the three killed and eight injured was fewer than the 33 people who died in the same timeframe in 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/24/school-shootings-2021-increase/
More escalation. Kids going back to school . . . with guns.
Guns make everything better! Domestic violence, road rage, job disputes and schools.
An NRA past president gives a commencement speech
It's only 2 minutes, watch the whole thing . . .Is there a link between the sheer number of guns available and gun violence.
This is a chart of gun deaths from 1968 to 2017:
Note the sharp spike in murders that begins in 2014. That trend continues today with the CDC reporting a murder rate of 5.8/100k in 2019 and increases over that in 2020* and 2021* (numbers not finalized as of this post).
What happened in 2014? No pandemic, no major influx of drugs or gangs, economy booming and inflation down while employment up. What changed?
Below is a graph of guns manufactured from 1986 through 2018:
Here is a chart of imports of guns from 1986 to 2018:
Notice the spike in manufacturing and imports that began after 2010 and spiked in 2014? The supply of guns is directly correlated to the increase in gun violence. There is no way to ignore this.
Shootings in U.S. are up -- and experts fear it will get worse
Through the first five months of 2021, gunfire killed more than 8,100 people in the United States, about 54 lives lost per day, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research organization. That’s 14 more deaths per day than the average toll during the same period of the previous six years.
https://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/ODN/HoustonChronicle/Default.aspx (pay wall)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/14/2021-gun-violence/ (no pay wall)
There is much more worth reading in the article but the bottom line is that IT REALLY IS THE GUNS.
MORE GUNS = MORE SHOOTINGS. There's no way to deny it.
At the same time other crimes, violent and non violent, are down and remain at near all time lows. It's only gun violence that is up.
The NRA was once the good guy.
The National Revolver Association, which was part of the NRA, proposed requiring a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Other aspects of the NRA’s legislation: adding five years prison time if a gun was used in a crime, prohibiting the sale of a gun to a non-citizen, imposing a one-day waiting period before a purchaser could take possession of a gun, and opening records of gun sales to police. Nine states adopted the legislation.
I have told gunners for years that they are the ones best suited to write gun laws. Of course it fell on hostile ears. We will have sensible gun laws, laws the will reduce the number and kind of guns in circulation to a small fraction of what we have today. Perhaps not in my lifetime, but it will come and the gunners aren't going to be happy.
That's what happens when those who love a thing let others regulate it for them.
A History of the NRA
https://hickoryrecord.com/news/history-of-the-nra/collection_772d86f7-a01a-586a-abc8-930bcaa6d4f3.html#1
A short easy read and well worth the few minutes to better know who we are dealing with.
13 injured in mass shooting on Austin's Sixth Street
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/13-injured-in-mass-shooting-on-Austin-s-Sixth-16243242.phpMy fingers are numb from typing details and excerpts on these things.
It's a woman's rights issue.
It's not just a mass shooting issue, a gun control issue or a gun rights issue, it's also a woman's rights issue.
60% if mass shooters have a history of domestic abuse.
About 5 million women are victims of domestic abuse every year.
A woman is 500% more likely to die if an abuser has access to a gun.
On average 57 women die each month by a gun in a domestic partner's hands.
Not all states report domestic violence convictions to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Guns make EVERYTHING better! Shall we discuss road rage next?
It's a woman's rights issue.
It's not just a mass shooting issue, a gun control issue or a gun rights issue, it's also a woman's rights issue.
60% if mass shooters have a history of domestic abuse.
About 5 million women are victims of domestic abuse every year.
A woman is 500% more likely to die if an abuser has access to a gun.
On average 57 women die each month by a gun in a domestic partner's hands.
Not all states report domestic violence convictions to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Guns make EVERYTHING better! Shall we discuss road rage next?
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