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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 11:49 PM Apr 2018

86 teenagers killed by gun-related violence since Florida

Clark Mindock
New York

... “There will be no national headlines, but we lost another teenager here last night,” South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg tweeted on February 18, hours after the shooting death of Daekwon Tobar, a 17-year-old, who was shot on the way home from the store with his grandmother, and who friends and family later described as a quiet boy just learning “how to be able to look a person in the eye. How to fill out a resume and a cover letter” ...

... on average one-and-a-half teenagers were killed each day from the morning of February 14 through April 5, the 50 day mark ...

Most cases appear to involve a handgun .. consistent with general gun death statistics which indicate 65 per cent of gun deaths in the United States involve a hand gun ...

... Carlos Morales .. was shot outside an Orlando home after getting into heated argument with a fellow teen...

A 14-year-old Mississippi girl .. was shot by her 9-year-old brother with their mother’s live-in boyfriend’s unsecured gun when she would not give up a video game controller ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/parkland-shooting-us-teenagers-killed-gun-violence-florida-school-gun-control-nra-march-lives-a8290401.html

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