The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives (Scientific American)

[Nevilledog]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-is-clear-gun-control-saves-lives/

Some editorials simply hurt to write. This is one.

At least 19 elementary school children and two teachers are dead, many more are injured, and a grandmother is fighting for her life in Uvalde, Tex., all because a young man, armed with an AR-15-style rifle, decided to fire in a school.

By now, you know these facts: This killing spree was the largest school shooting since Sandy Hook. Law enforcement couldn’t immediately subdue the killer. In Texas, it’s alarmingly easy to buy and openly carry a gun. In the immediate hours after the shooting, President Biden demanded reform, again. Legislators demanded reform, again. And progun politicians turned to weathered talking points: arm teachers and build safer schools.

But rather than arm our teachers (who have enough to do without keeping that gun away from students and having to train like law enforcement to confront an armed attacker), rather than spend much-needed school dollars on more metal detectors instead of education, we need to make it harder to buy a gun. Especially the kind of weapons used by this killer and the white supremacist who killed 10 people grocery shopping in Buffalo. And we need to put a lasting stop to the political obstruction of taxpayer-funded research into gun-related injuries and deaths.

The science is abundantly clear: More guns do not stop crime. Guns kill more children each year than auto accidents. More children die by gunfire in a year than on-duty police officers and active military members. Guns are a public health crisis, just like COVID, and in this, we are failing our children, over and over again.

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[JoeOtterbein]

1. K n R ! Thanks for posting! And...

...(tears).

[Diamond_Dog]

2. K&R

Bookmarked for the next time I get in a conversation with a right winger who is against gun control.

[crickets]

3. Excellent article filled with links to more info. K&R

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

Mortality from Motor Vehicle Crashes and Firearms among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, United States, 2000–2020.
The rates are age-adjusted and are from the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.