Rember this photo:
Stacey Feeley's 3-year-old practicing a lockdown drill and hiding from a potential attacker, June 2016
"Politicians – take a look. This is your child, your children, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren and future generations to come. They will live their lives and grow up in this world based on your decision." - Stacey Feeley
I think most people would agree that gun violence has not improved in two years, but how much worse has it become?
Philip Mudd, former FBI agent and counter-terrorism analyst for CNN, speaking with Wolf Blitzer about the Parkland, Florida shooting.
"A child of God is dead. Can not we acknowledge in this country that we cannot accept this. . . . I can't do it, Wolf."
A few numbers about the US and guns:
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God Bless America Handgun Control, Inc. 1997 |
There were more than 38,000 gun-related deaths in the US in 2016 . . .
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Chief petty officers watch a Revolutionary War-era rifle demonstration at the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston |
The US is 4% of the world’s population, owns 43% of the world’s guns and is responsible for 34% of civilian mass shootings.
Guns in the classroom by TAP The Ale Party
312 US school shootings since 2013 (an average of nearly one a week) . . .
Note from Aztec High School shooting in Dec 2017. William Atchison shot two students before killing himself.
7 children and teens die in the US from gun violence (murder, suicide, accident) per day.
Candlelight vigil at Virginia Tech after the April 16, 2007 shooting left 32 dead 17 injured.
School shootings with the highest fatalities:
Sandy Hook Elementary School
Dec 14, 2012
Newtown, CT
27 dead and 2 injured
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Stoneman Douglas High School
Feb 14, 2018
Parkland, FL
17 dead and 17 injured
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Columbine High School
April 20, 1999
Columbine, CO
13 dead and 24 injured
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Santa Fe High School
May 18, 2018
Santa Fe, Texas
10 dead and 13 injured
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We desperately need a change in the numbers. |
Since Columbine, 214,000 children at 216 schools have experienced gun violence in school.
At least 141 children, educators, and others have been killed, and 284 have been injured during school shootings.
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