Similar to how we failed numerous times to abolish slavery until we ripped ourselves apart in civil war, similar to how we failed to grant African Americans the right to vote and civil rights until the Civil Rights Movement forced President Lyndon Johnson to codify them into law, we will continue kicking the proverbial can down the road until...
When?
20 elementary school children and six adults were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
50 night club patrons were killed in Orlando, Fla. in 2016.
59 country music fans were murdered from a hotel window in Las Vegas in 2017.
17 students and staff were slaughtered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. in 2018.
Virginia Tech.
Since the Sandy Hook shooting, there have been at least 2,440 mass shootings that have killed 2,752 and wounded 10,159.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 39,000 people died of gun-related injuries in 2016.
2018 saw the highest gun-related deaths in nearly four decades--40,000.
By the beginning of last June--153 days into the year--there had been 156 mass shootings.
Although statistically mass shootings constitute a fraction of America's more than 32,000 firearm deaths every year, the U.S. outpaces other developed countries in gun deaths.
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