Preventing shootings...
Automatic rifles on display.
As a reporter, I have become eerily attuned to this horrible American ritual. I do the same thing every single time we get news of a mass shootings: verify reports, write a "what we know" article, and then begin to update our old pieces on guns, German Lopez reports on vox.com.
There are signs that the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed at least 17 people and injured at least 14 others could have a different outcome, Lopez wrote.
But I remain skeptical. The federal government did nothing after 6- and 7-year-olds were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed 20 children, six adults, and himself in 2012, Lopez added.
Since then, there have been more than 1,600 mass shootings, killing more than 1,800 people and wounding 6,400.
Many of these events led to protests and calls for action, but Congress refused to budge every time, Lopez reported.
For more, including five solutions to consider: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/21/17028930/gun-violence-us-statistics-charts
For more on gun laws vs. gun deaths: https://www.safehome.org/resources/gun-laws-and-deaths/
Photos: Safehome, Vox.
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