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billh58

(6,635 posts)
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 09:13 AM Jan 2018

School Shooting in Kentucky Is Nations 11th of Year. Its Jan. 23.

ATLANTA — On Tuesday, it was a high school in small-town Kentucky. On Monday, a school cafeteria outside Dallas and a charter school parking lot in New Orleans. And before that, a school bus in Iowa, a college campus in Southern California, a high school in Seattle.

Gunfire ringing out in American schools used to be rare, and shocking. Now it seems to happen all the time.

The scene in Benton, Ky., on Tuesday was the worst so far in 2018: Two 15-year-old students were killed and 18 more people were injured. But it was one of at least 11 shootings on school property recorded since Jan. 1, and roughly the 50th of the academic year.

Researchers and gun control advocates say that since 2013, they have logged school shootings at a rate of about one a week.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/kentucky-school-shooting.html?emc=edit_th_180124&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=31465010


Just the price we have to pay so that gun manufacturers can make their blood profits, and good ole boys can shoot up road signs from their pick-em-up trucks.
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School Shooting in Kentucky Is Nations 11th of Year. Its Jan. 23. (Original Post) billh58 Jan 2018 OP
Had one here in Texas too, same day.nt flamin lib Jan 2018 #1
Sorry to hear that, billh58 Jan 2018 #2

billh58

(6,635 posts)
2. Sorry to hear that,
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 09:29 AM
Jan 2018

but unfortunately school shootings (along with mass shootings, and just plain shootings) are the norm now. NRA blood money has bought and paid for the worst president and congress we've ever had in the history of this nation -- almost all of them white supremacists who see guns as a solution to the non-white "immigration" problem.

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