Hi Humans.
More news has come out about the shooting in Washington State. The shooter was a popular student, a hunter, a football player, a homecoming prince, not an obvious screwball to his surroundings. His parents had given him a rifle as a gift (not the handgun used in the shooting). His victims were his cousins. He was ultimately stopped, not by a private citizen with a gun, but by an unarmed female teacher who tried to grab the gun away from him before he shot himself. This event is the opposite picture of what the NRA would like to present, but consistent with the facts reported in the American Journal of Public Health (The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Stranger and Nonstranger Firearm Homicide Rates in the United States, 1981-2010. Siegel M1, Negussie Y, Vanture S, Pleskunas J, Ross CS, King C 3rd). The shooter was not an intruder or a robber. He was a kid who grew up in a culture where gun ownership is the norm who became very angry and in a moment of passion acted out that anger with an easily available gun.
Chloe
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