Wisconsin school shooting

MSNBC REPORTS:

“ In a statement on Monday afternoon, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said, “There are no words to describe the devastation and heartbreak we feel today after the school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison this morning.”

“As a father, a grandfather, and as governor, it is unthinkable that a kid or an educator might wake up and go to school one morning and never come home,” he said. “This should never happen, and I will never accept this as a foregone reality or stop working to change it.””

AMEN!

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Frostcloud · F Best Comment

i told my roommate the leading cause of death in children and teens is firearms and he interrupted me, wouldnt let me finish talking, to say "its my right 😡"

KunsanVeteran · M

@Frostcloud You are absolutely correct.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Frostcloud No way to prevent this says only nation where this regularly happens

KunsanVeteran · M

@CountScrofula I don’t know of any other civilized nation that worships guns & violence like a certain minority of our country does…

Convivial · 26-30, F

@Frostcloud get a new room mate...

Frostcloud · F

@Convivial id love to but i can save a lot of money here and he accepts my anxious dog who will make it much harder to relocate 😔

Convivial · 26-30, F

@Frostcloud fair enough, can't argue with that...

Theyitis · 36-40, M

@Frostcloud I’m all in favor of more gun laws, but tbf I’ve been told that firearms is only the leading cause of death in children and teens if you use ages 1-19. It doesn’t work if you use ages 1-18 or 1-20, and the gun nut that told me that argued that 19 is not a child.

KunsanVeteran · M

@Theyitis That is not correct!. The numbers by ages are readily available. Research it for yourself.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens

This is just one current and authoritative source to get you started.

Frostcloud · F

@Theyitis i agree that is not correct as many articles do the research listing children and teens as 1-17. that said, eighteen and nineteen year olds are still teens and shouldn't lose their life to gun violence

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Theyitis It's far simpler to just recognise there's a problem and this problem doesn't exist in countries with sane gun control.

ElwoodBlues · M

@Theyitis Probably depends on what year you're using for your data. Here's data from 2021, 19% of all deaths for children UNDER 18, making firearms the leading cause.

According to Johns Hopkins, in 2022

For third straight year, firearms killed more children and teens, ages 1 to 17, than any other cause including car crashes and cancer

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens