The US is the most unsafe developed country in the world

So far this year, 227 shootings have taken place in America in which four or more people were killed or injured at one time. As of this writing, bullets have flown 27 times in our schools in 2022. In 2021, 228 shootings took place in schools.

Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in the United States under the age of 18. Most shootings occur on our city streets, but no one even mentions those.

Big mass shootings, like the one in Uvalde, Texas, that resulted in a massacre of mostly children ages 9 and 10, will stay in the news for two to three weeks before being replaced by other headlines. We’ve already stopped talking about the shooting in a Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo, N.Y., where 10 Black people were killed.

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Do Americans really care about gun violence? Do we care that toddlers were shot in a kindergarten classroom in Connecticut? That shoppers died in a Buffalo supermarket or a Walmart in Texas? Do we care that worshippers were killed at a Bible study in South Carolina? Do you realize that mass shootings occur in the workplace, at concerts, at churches, at schools, and at grocery stores and supermarkets?

Is there any place that is safe from gun violence in America? Why are we the only country in the world that has this type of violence? Is it the estimated 300 million guns we have circulation? Is it weak gun laws or lax background checks? Is it the NRA and the Republican politicians who have been bought and paid for by the gun lobby?

Are there more Americans in support of gun violence than those against it? Do Republicans not have a heart or conscience and are completely unaffected by the slaughter of children?

Former President Donald Trump advocates arming teachers as an answer to the carnage. This country has more guns in civilian hands than any other country in the world, and – no surprise – we have the most incidents of gun violence, by far. If trained police officers are afraid to enter an active shooting, why and how should we expect that a kindergarten teacher would?

In Parkland, Fla., and Uvalde, police, trained professionals, waited outside while a shooter went on a rampage. Teachers are not trained to confront a shooter. After Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland and hundreds of other school shootings, why would any police officer not be trained to confront an active shooter and why would they hesitate in doing so?

It is past time for our elected officials to pass realistic gun laws. It is past time to stop the violence. Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called for repealing the Second Amendment after 17 people were killed at Broward’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. But if we can’t even pass background check laws, amending the U.S. Constitution appears unlikely to be a viable solution.

Australia, a country with its own western expansion and gun tradition, had a mass shooting 20 years ago. It passed tougher gun laws in response and has not had one since. Do you realize that many countries do not have any mass shootings at all?

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