Gun Control, Gun Violence, and Dismantling White Supremacy

May 30, 2022 - Recent Shootings & Joela Rivera's Thoughts

Sources for my post:

1. ‍https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/16/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
2. ‍https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
3. ‍https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/24/980838151/gun-violence-deaths-how-the-u-s-compares-to-the-rest-of-the-world
4. ‍https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-violence-statistics/
5. ‍https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/new-gun-report-details-reality-criminals-bypassing-system-msna414351#53923
6. ‍https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/us/mass-shootings-45-one-month/index.html
7. https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/
8. https://swanaalliance.com/
9. https://www.sedgwickcounty.org/media/29093/the-racist-origins-of-us-gun-control.pdf
10. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-on-black-crime-myth
11. https://time.com/4823524/gun-violence-black-children-study/
12. https://www.them.us/story/gun-violence-transgender-homicides-tdor-2020

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April 15, 2021 - INDIANAPOLIS FEDEX SHOOTING:

Last night, 8 people were killed in a mass shooting at an Indiana FedEx facility. This is the US’s 45th mass shootings in the past MONTH since March 16th, and 147th mass shooting in 2021 [6]. And yet, the U.S. has the weakest gun safety laws of any comparable country. [4]

In contrast, over 50 anti-trans bills are in progress right now [7] despite the fact that trans kids hurt no one. That is, republican lawmakers are more concerned with restricting and harming trans kids than they are with saving the 38,000+ people who are killed by gun every year.

Sources for my post:

1. ‍https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/16/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
2. ‍https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
3. ‍https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/24/980838151/gun-violence-deaths-how-the-u-s-compares-to-the-rest-of-the-world
4. ‍https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-violence-statistics/
5. ‍https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/new-gun-report-details-reality-criminals-bypassing-system-msna414351#53923
6. ‍https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/us/mass-shootings-45-one-month/index.html
7. ‍https://www.transathlete.com/take-action