Chicago Tribune (April 1)
“The issues in Tuesday’s election for mayor of Chicago are perennials: teetering city finances, gun violence, public schools, City Hall corruption. Either finalist, Lori Lightfoot or Toni Preckwinkle, would be a capable mayor. But let’s pause to celebrate that whoever next leads the city will be unique: Chicago’s first African-American female mayor.”
Tags: African-American, Capable, Chicago, Corruption, Election, Female, Gun violence, Lightfoot, Mayor, Preckwinkle
Washington Post (October 2)
“America has no monopoly on evil or sick people, yet it loses far more people to gun violence. Other countries — notably Australia following a mass shooting in 1996 — have demonstrated the possibility of bans on assault weapons and other common-sense restrictions. What makes America unique is the absence of political will and leadership.”
Tags: Assault weapons, Australia, Bans, Common-sense restrictions, Evil, Gun violence, Leadership, Mass shooting, Monopoly, Political will, U.S.
LA Times (June 20)
“Each day three or four children under age 17 die and an additional 16 are hospitalized from a single cause: gunfire. In fact… gun violence is the third leading cause of death for American kids between ages 1 and 17, and the second leading cause of injury-related deaths after motor vehicle accidents.” It is “the nation’s shame” that “we know it’s a problem…. We know steps can be taken to address it. But we don’t take them.”
Tags: Accidents, Children, Death, Gun violence, Gunfire, Hospitalized, Shame, U.S.
Los Angeles Times (April 11)
“The sad reality is that Monday’s murder-suicide committed in a special needs classroom at North Park Elementary School was as mundane as American gun violence gets—because it was not an act of terrorism or an attack by disgruntled students on their classmates. Rather, it was an act of domestic violence, the kind that occurs every single day in the United States.”
Tags: . Murder-suicide, Domestic violence, Elementary school, Gun violence, Mundane, Sad, Terrorism, U.S.
Washington Post (October 19)
“Of all the sad statistics associated with U.S. gun violence, none is more pitiful than the single digits that represent the ages of little children who unintentionally shoot themselves or others after getting hold of a gun.” On average a child shoots someone (or himself) unintentionally once a week. “No count can capture the lasting emotional damage of these shootings, to those who shoot as well as, if they survive, those who are shot.”
Tags: Children, Emotional damage, Gun violence, Sad, Shootings, Statistics, U.S.
Los Angeles Times (October 1)
“Today’s mass shooting at an Oregon community college brings us once again to the national crisis that we, as a democratic society, keep proving we’re incapable of resolving.” The numbers don’t seem to “matter because, within the framework of the nation’s sick approach to gun violence, the dead never seem to count.”
Tags: Crisis, Dead, Gun violence, Mass shooting, Oregon, Society, U.S.
Washington Post (July 8)
“Maybe Chicago’s death toll will help stop the madness on gun access.” Over the Fourth of July weekend, Chicago “was scarred by what tragically has become another American tradition: gun violence. In the course of 84 hours this past weekend, 82 people were shot in Chicago, 16 of them fatally. One person an hour, not in some far-flung war zone but on the streets of a major U.S. city.”
USA Today (December 18)
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg writes, “The slaughter of 20 innocent children and the six adults who tried to save them in Newtown, Conn., marked a turning point in our national consciousness…. There is no looking away from the murdered children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. There is no ignoring the anguish felt by their parents and by the families…. And there is no escaping the fact that we must do more to protect our communities from gun violence.”
Tags: Bloomberg, Gun violence, New York, Newtown, Sandy Hook
