Locking up guns is stupid. Lock up criminals.
Locking up guns is stupid. Lock up criminals.
For example, we have this piece from The Progressive and written by a researcher from Yale University.
On January 22, a seventeen-year-old boy shot and killed a fellow student before killing himself at a high school in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the first fatal school shooting of the new year; it will almost certainly not be the last. In 2024, the United States saw thirty-nine school shootings.
It doesn’t have to be this way. New national policies regarding secure gun storage could save children’s lives.
First, we don't know how the shooter at Antioch High School got his gun in the first place. It's entirely possible, maybe even likely, that he got the firearm from a parent, but we don't actually know that. To use that when there are still so many questions unanswered is, at best, disingenuous. At worst, it's a blatant attempt at manipulation.
Second, those 39 school shootings are based on the K-12 School Shooting Database, which counts not just shootings during school hours and school activities, but also anytime a stray bullet lands in a school parking lot at midnight in the middle of summer vacation.
In other words, the number of what most people would think of as school shootings is actually much lower.
And the author immediately jumps to national mandatory storage laws. More on that in a second. See, she's not done trying to manipulate people.
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For example, we have this piece from The Progressive and written by a researcher from Yale University.
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On January 22, a seventeen-year-old boy shot and killed a fellow student before killing himself at a high school in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the first fatal school shooting of the new year; it will almost certainly not be the last. In 2024, the United States saw thirty-nine school shootings.
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It doesn’t have to be this way. New national policies regarding secure gun storage could save children’s lives.
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First, we don't know how the shooter at Antioch High School got his gun in the first place. It's entirely possible, maybe even likely, that he got the firearm from a parent, but we don't actually know that. To use that when there are still so many questions unanswered is, at best, disingenuous. At worst, it's a blatant attempt at manipulation.
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Second, those 39 school shootings are based on the K-12 School Shooting Database, which counts not just shootings during school hours and school activities, but also anytime a stray bullet lands in a school parking lot at midnight in the middle of summer vacation.
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In other words, the number of what most people would think of as school shootings is actually much lower.
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And the author immediately jumps to national mandatory storage laws. More on that in a second. See, she's not done trying to manipulate people.
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