In regard to shooting children... Some interesting stats ...

100
Number of people killed by guns in the U.S., every day

12
Number of children who die every day from gun violence in the U.S.

950
School shootings since Sandy Hook, including 27 school shootings so far this year

18 to 21
Peak ages for violent offending with firearms

8 million
Number of AR-15s and its variations in circulation

9 in 10
Number of people who will die after attempting suicide with a gun

98
Percentage of mass shooters who are men

89
Percentage of gun owners who favor preventing the "mentally ill" from purchasing guns

77
Percentage of gun owners who favor background checks at private sales and gun shows

54
Percentage of gun deaths that are suicides; 43% are murders

79
Percentage of murders that involved a firearm

<1
Percentage of people who defended themselves with their guns in violent crimes

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Vivaci

Amount paid to political parties for supporting guns by the NRA and other Gun manufacturers around the world— billions

SW-User

@Vivaci actually, the nra only received an amount 18.5 million total last year and that number is usually is no more than 25 million a year. By the way, no one in the NRA is committing these shootings.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood and Big Pharma took in, from political parties and other donations, a combined total of about $700 MILLION dollars.

That 1% for people who defended themselves with a gun during a violent crime is way off. Between 500,000 to 2,000,000 defensive uses of firearms are reported each year.

That 950 school shootings number is misleading. You gotta look at how they're defining "school shooting" and what actually happened during that event. Most of the time, it's nothing more than someone fired a gun, hitting no one, on school property or someone had a gun on school property. It shouldn't be happening, yes, but don't be mislead by a headline.

There are 400 million guns in this country, legally purchased. If there was a gun problem the way politicians put it, you'd know about it.

None of these shootings, school or otherwise, are being committed by the gun lobby, or anyone who is a responsible gun owner. I'm sorry but no. They're being carried out by people who are either on drugs, legal or illegal, or by people who just wanna have their names be remembered.

Notice that none of the school shootings that have taken place at schools where the elites send their kids to school. They seem to be able to find funding to pay for their kids to go to schools with armed security, but when it comes to even suggesting that we have those same kinds of guards at public schools, they're the first ones to scream NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT, WE CANT EVEN THINK OF PUTTING KIDS THROUGH THAT CONVERSATION AS TO WHY THEY NEED ARMED GUARDS AT SCHOOL. We can't get enough democrats to vote YES for that kind of legislation, because the Republicans are voting for it. So who really doesn't want to protect the every day non elite kids?

Less than 50 people were killed by rifles, any kind of rifle, the last 3 years. More people were killed by hands, feet, and fists than were by rifles. The vast majority of the gun homicides that happen in this country are committed by handguns. The vast majority of those murders are inner city gang on gang violence, but we can't talk about that for some reason 🤷🏻‍♂️.