Friday, November 18, 2016

The school gun violence we don’t talk about

There have been 201 incidents of firearms being discharged on school grounds since January of 2013, according to new findings from Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense.

The findings also highlighted an issue that is often overlooked in the national conversation about school shootings: 39 percent of non-shooter victims of gun violence on school campuses are black, even though African Americans only make up 13 percent of the population. Meanwhile, 45 percent of non-shooter victims were white and 10 percent were non-white Latino victims....
https://thinkprogress.org/the-school-gun-violence-we-dont-talk-about-294865ad04eb#.7xa8mmiaj



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