What a lying sack of sh*t! From an email sent by Tulsi Gabbard today, with a link supporting her claim of 7,000 "children" deaths in the context of school safety (in a speech before the House (
https://gabbard.house.gov/news/press-releases/video-rep-tulsi-gabbard-bipartisan-coalition-support-legislation-strengthen)). There is no link to the source of her claim.
“It’s been one month since the tragic shooting in Parkland, and today students in Hawai‘i and all across the country are joining hands and raising their voices to honor the 17 lives lost on that day and the 7,000 children whose lives have been lost since the 2012 shooting at
Sandy Hook. They are walking out today to demand action that will help to prevent these tragedies and improve the
safety and security of our schools.
“Later today, we are going to be voting on a bill that I’ve co-sponsored: the
Stop School Violence Act. This bill or any other single bill is not going to solve everything, but it will help
prevent school violence by implementing measures developed after
Sandy Hook that supports training for
teachers, students, school personnel, and local law enforcement to better identify early warning signs of violence and increases coordination between
schools and local law enforcement.
No funding provided as a grant under this bill may be used for the provision of a firearm to any person or training in the use of a firearm.* * * * *
She's claiming 7,000 children deaths in 5 years. How many have actually been killed in "school shootings" (which is all her bill she is discussing addresses)?
Let's see what an actual researcher who has spent the last 20 years researching these statistics has to say:
“There is not an epidemic of school shootings,” he said, adding that more kids are killed each year from pool drownings or bicycle accidents [not to mention car accidents]. There are around 55 million school children in the United States, and o
n average over the past 25 years, about 10 students per year were killed by gunfire at school [and that includes suicides], according to Fox and Fridel’s research.
Schools are safer than they were in the 90s, and school shootings are not more common than they used to be, researchers sayThe deadly school shooting this month in Parkland, Florida, has ignited national outrage and calls for action on gun reform. But while certain policies may help decrease gun violence in general, it’s unlikely that any of them will prevent mass school shootings, according to
James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern.
https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/schools-are-still-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says/* * * * *
Gabbard, while being totally disingenuous if not outright lying, fails to define her parameters because she likes to mislead people by including suicides, accidents, and justified homicides and conflate all those with actual school violence perpetrated by criminals with firearms, all in order to attempt to ram through her "common sense gun safety regulations" that are really mere incremental steps to total civilian disarmament. Not to mention that she is no doubt including 18 and maybe 19-year-old adults as "children", most of whom are black gang bangers killing each other over drug deals gone bad and turf wars. I wonder why she doesn't mention any of that?
What a lying sack of sh*t!