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In reply to the discussion: All the adults who died were women [View all]liberalhistorian
(20,824 posts)children who die every single day from gun violence, usually in poor and/or minority and urban areas. Children from ages 5-14 in this country are at least ten times more likely to die from gun violence than in the other developed countries, and they're disproportionately poor and/or minority. I live on an Indian reservation and see it all the freaking time, and my parents were teachers in not-so-great areas and they saw it all the freaking time.
Yet the media doesn't care and society doesn't care, it's considered to be par for the course now. It's when it hits white kids in an affluent suburb that it somehow REALLY "matters" and there's finally talk about "how to stop it"; but what they're often referring to is mass shootings and not the numerous daily victims of guns, with a too-large share being children and poor and/or minority ones at that. In this society, frankly, only "some" children matter, not others.
And you can see that by all of the hand-wringing over "we thought we were safe here", "it wasn't supposed to happen here", etc., etc. As if it's okay if it happens to THOSE people in THOSE places, but not "here", with fairly well-off white children. Bleh.