Shootings at graduation parties reminder of gun violence ‘epidemic’ for students, advocates

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Over 20,000 people in the U.S. have died so far this year from firearm-related injuries, including over 700 children and teens.

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According to Crifasi, when teens and young adults commit these acts of violence, many may not fully understand their actions, as “their prefrontal cortex isn’t fully evolved, and so they don't always have long-term planning, they're not always thinking about the consequences of their behavior.”, a violence prevention organization. She said too many children have access to guns that aren’t secured properly.

“Graduation parties should be celebrations, not bloodbaths,” Watts told ABC News. “Our nation’s weak gun laws enable gun violence at parties, places of work and worship, and other spaces where we should be safe.”The upwards trend in gun sales since 2000 concerns Geller, who adds she is"very worried about the number of guns that were acquired last year and are still being acquired. The more guns that we add into this country, the more people are going to be at risk of gun violence.

 

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Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country yet 60 people are shot a weekend so it’s not a gun control problem completely it’s the policy of Democrats letting criminals back onto the street

Why isn’t it a ‘pandemic’? I’ll wait

🙄 Respect, morality, and just being a decent person seems to be too much to ask for these days

OMG

Nothing will change until US makes handguns illegal….e.g. the rest of the first world.

Most of those were criminals shot by cops, or each other. So good riddance to those.

We need to investigate how many of these shooters belong to the Republican Party.

elaborate on “firearm-related injuries”, hope you’re not counting suicides, that would be a weasel thing to do

Mostly in Chicago huh?

Numbers are low; population control measures are failing; even with defunding police, the numbers are abysmal; our cities need to ramp up during the summer months; I've never heard of a gun pulling it's own trigger; maybe we need to look at mental health as the real issue

This is so wrong! Republicans need to work on gun control, and stop worrying about the money that they get from the NRA!🤨🤔🙏

And yet…..Texas

Just take the same approach that conservatives do with abortion… Go after the ammunition.

WOW!!! and there's nothing to see here, how is nothing done about this.

Gun control? My Uncle Jeb & Jim-Bob already gave up their AR-15's what more do you want? Pictured below they are making the best of hunting season this year.

Do you really believe that criminals and thugs will obey gun control laws? They already can't obey laws. All gun control does is hurt the law abiding citizen.

Can we please get more gun control? Even gun nuts have to see that too many untrained and negligent people are getting firearms and killing each other.

My son dropped out of high school. He doesn't wanna get shot.

'And? What's the problem?' Republicans ask.

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