"The Santa Fe Ten Memorial Foundation unveiled the design Saturday for its memorial honoring those who died in the 2018 school shooting at Santa Fe High School.
The announcement came six years to the day when eight students and two faculty members were killed during a school shooting at Santa Fe High School."
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@Snowshadow He survived which is, I hate to say lucky, but a better outcome than most. Very awful, though, and something my own future voter has concerns about. #GunSafety
"A study recently published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons found that states that restricted abortion access from 2018 to 2020 had a 75 percent higher rate of peripartum homicide...than states without restrictions...Firearms were used in 63 percent of all peripartum homicides. These statistics underscore the connection between reproductive rights, domestic violence and gun violence in the United States."
Which is fine because adults under 35 are umpteen times more concerned about #TheFreedomToDecide, the #ClimateCrisis and #GunSafety than older voters and they will vote on these existential issues.
"Almost a third of US adults believe there would be less crime if more people owned guns, according to an April 2021 Pew survey. However, multiple studies show that where people have easy access to firearms, gun-related deaths tend to be more frequent, including by suicide, homicide and unintentional injuries.
It is then unsurprising that the US has more deaths from gun violence than any other developed country per capita."
“I grew up in the mass-shooting era in the United States,” Brown said. “I understand intrinsically why Americans under 45 consistently rank this issue among their top concerns.”
#Biden again delivered for #gunsafety: This week his Admin announced executive actions that will promote #safegunstorage. These will require the DOJ to issue guidance on safe storage and the Department of Education to engage principals and school leaders on this.
Today in U.S. 65% of gun owners have at least one unlocked firearm, which can lead to devastating outcomes: 8 children & teens are unintentionally injured or killed due to an unlocked or unsupervised gun in the home every day. #Brady
Maybe it's just because I'm former military but the absolute lack of muzzle awareness in literally every pop culture entertainment thing is so ridiculous.
If realism were factored in in the tiniest amount there would be soooo many dead or faceless characters from accidental miss fires. It's damn near rage inducing.
Say what you will about gun control, at the very least we could foster a safer gun culture if we must have one.
November is a long way away from today. I wouldn't make any assumptions about how Gen Z, etc. will vote.
What are the odds that either Biden's age or Gaza (x-months in the rear-view mirror) will be of greater importance than #TheFreedomToDecide, the #ClimateCrisis and #GunSafety for young voters come November?
"About 9 in 10 Chinese parents and two-thirds of American parents place hard work among the most important values to pass along to children. In Sweden, it’s 11 percent. This makes a lot of sense: Parents everywhere want to set their kids up for success, but 'the economic environment really shapes what that means,' Doepke said." https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/01/america-failed-parents-rich-countries-raising-kids/677023/
@realTuckFrumper
If we can’t get a “plain reading” or originalist interpretation (or whateverthefuck legalese term they use) for the Fourteenth Amendment, can we then get a 21st century rational interpretation of the Second?
"Hundreds of young children in the U.S. have been killed playing with guns over the last two decades, according to a study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vast majority of cases involved guns that were stored unlocked and loaded.
The CDC report's authors say their new findings highlight the rising toll taken by accidental gun deaths that could be preventable."
"CDC researchers say multiple factors likely contributed to a similar increase nationally, including the COVID-19 pandemic that might have exacerbated risk factors for suicide like social isolation, relationship stressors and substance use.
In Texas, gun safety and mental health advocates point to another factor: Easy access to guns."
A woman was shot in the buttocks by her own gun when she brought it to her MRI appointment, didn’t remove it and the MRI’s magnetic force triggered it to fire.🔥
Researchers found firearm suicides account for approximately half of overall suicide deaths, they said in a report published Thursday, meaning of the nearly 50,000 overall suicide deaths in 2022, about 27,000 of them were gun-related.
The analysis, using data from from 2019 to 2022, also highlighted an increase in firearm suicides."
You can always tell when someone takes #GunSafety seriously. Sometimes they even break character because handling guns safely is so important that it becomes an automatic reflex.
Note: Drew Carey delivered his line seamlessly while performing this maneuver, but then again, he is a former Marine.
Sadly, in the U.S. of A., the term "deadly Walmart shooting" has been a foregone conclusion for many years.
It was simply a matter of time.
Tell me again how it's not the guns...?
😭 #vote#gunsense#GunSafety