Prosecutors have charged two students with second-degree murder and attempted murder in a shooting that killed a 15-year-old student outside South Education Center in Richfield, Minn., on Tuesday.
Compared with the rest of the world’s most economically advanced nations, CNN reported that America has had 57 times as many school shootings as Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom all combined.
Our passion for freedom and guns is costing every citizen
safety & a violence free community.
Way too many youth are growing up with guns and violence
and childhood trauma in the home.
It’s making life more dangerous for all of us – especially for schools and children. Untreated childhood traumas, and the behaviors they trigger, combined with easy access to small deadly weapons are a recipe for school and community violence and murder.
Carjackings, assaults, burglary and gun violence,
all leave the same scar on the victim and family.
This is a public health problem
Life does not return to normal.
The body keeps the score
the brain and behaviors change.
The last shooting at Washington Middle School was one of at least 42 acts of gun violence committed on K-12 campuses during regular hours in 2021, the most during any year since at least 1999, according to a Washington Post database.
More than 285,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine
Prior to the COVID lockdown, youth crime, gun violence, suicide & self-harm were impacting schools, public safety and health.
Today, being a teacher, law enforcement officer, social worker or anyone dealing face to face with troubled youth is dealing with the very real possibility of gun violence. What do those other nations know that we don’t?
Compared with the rest of the world’s most economically advanced nations, the news network reported that America has had 57 times as many school shootings as Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom all combined.
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Five male students walked out of the school building and started to fight in the parking lot. One of the students allegedly pulled a gun out of his pocket and fired shots. Then that student and another student got into a car and drove away, continuing to fire several more shots.
Jahmari Rice died from those shots and another 17-year-old student is now in critical condition, according to authorities. This incident, however, is not the first time this academic year that a student from District 287 has allegedly had a gun.
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