On Friday morning, 27 people were reportedly shot and killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT. According to sources, 18 of these casualties were children. This is the second mass shooting in the US this week, after a gunman opened fire in an Oregon shopping mall on Tuesday, killing 2. ABC News reports that there have been 31 school shootings in the US since Columbine in 1999, when 13 people were killed. The rate of people killed by guns in the US is 19.5 times higher than similar high-income countries in the world. In the last 30 years since 1982, America has mourned at least 61 mass murders.
Harvard School of Public Health: More Guns = More Homicide: The answer is not more guns. The sooner Conservatives, the NRA, and the gun apologists remove their anteriors from their posteriors and admit to the truth, the sooner we can start protecting our children. Or do they really care more about guns than they do human life? As if I need to answer that….
A Timeline Of Mass Shootings In The US Since Columbine: Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it…and very often, die from it.
Power Line’s Hinderaker: Schools Should Be More Like Biker Bars: Why do so many Conservatives assume that the answer to gun violence is even more guns? When do we get to inject some common sense into this discussion?
Chart: The U.S. has far more gun-related killings than any other developed country: So more guns equals more security, eh? We should be the safest country in the world; instead, we’ve become a shooting gallery.
It’s Easier For Americans To Access Guns Than Mental Health Services: And that should tell you everything you need to know about what’s wrong with this country.
Children Were All Shot Multiple Times: I can’t wait to hear how Wayne LaPierre will rationalize this and turn it into yet another disgusting, self-serving argument for greater access to guns.
Five Lies The Gun Lobby Tells You: When you get right down to it, they value guns more than human life. It doesn’t get much more despicable and reprehensible than that.
Connecticut shooting: How do U.S. gun homicides compare with the rest of the world?: Why does most of the rest of the world manage to control the weaponry available to their citizens…and with it, the gun homicide rate?
Nevada Lawmaker Proposes Arming School Officials To Prevent Mass Shootings: Yep, nothing will solve the problem of too many guns like even more guns.
Justice Dept. Shelved Ideas to Bolster Gun Database: Because Lord knows you don’t want to piss off Wayne LaPierre.
Newspaper Runs Gun Ad Next To Coverage Of Connecticut Shooting: Today on “People Unclear On The Concept”….
Four charts show that America’s gun culture is totally unique: Totally unique and completely and utterly FUBARed. Our political system holds the “rights” of gun owners to be of far greater value than the lives of innocent civilians.
