{"id":91275,"date":"2023-03-27T15:14:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=91275"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:14:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T20:14:04","slug":"91275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=91275","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

USA Today actually frames scope of mass shootings correctly<\/a><\/p>\n

When it comes to framing the discussion around mass shootings, USA Today has a, well, let\u2019s call it a spotty track record. After all, they\u2019re the same ones who thought the\u00a0chainsaw bayonet<\/a>\u00a0was an actual, common thing that people attach to their AR-15s.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t help their credibility in the least.<\/p>\n

Yet it seems they\u2019re trying to do better. For example, a recent story actually gets a few things right with regard to the awful tragedy of children being killed by gunshots. Basically, school shootings\u00a0aren\u2019t as big of an issue as many think<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More than two-thirds of parents worry a shooting could happen at their children\u2019s school, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. But home is a far more dangerous place for kids.<\/p>\n

In the five years ending in 2022, at least 866 kids ages\u00a017 and younger were shot in domestic violence incidents, according to an analysis by\u00a0The Trace<\/a>\u00a0of data from the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive; 621 of them died. In that same time frame, 268 children were shot at school, 75 of them fatally, according to an\u00a0analysis\u00a0of data from the\u00a0CHDS School Shooting Safety Compendium<\/a>, a federally funded\u00a0tracker\u00a0launched after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.<\/p>\n

All told, three times as many children were shot in domestic violence incidents as in school shootings\u00a0and eight times as many died. The majority of those children were intentionally shot by a parent, stepparent\u00a0or guardian \u2013 the very people expected to protect them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, don\u2019t think this is a pro-gun or even gun-neutral article. The author works for The Trace, so you know it\u2019s still anti-gun.<\/p>\n

However, the truth of the matter is that whole mass shootings get a lot of attention, they\u2019re a small fraction of the violence that can claim a life.<\/p>\n

That applies to kids as well.<\/p>\n

Where the author doesn\u2019t really step up, though, is in telling you\u00a0there are 73.6 million children<\/a>\u00a0in the United States.<\/p>\n

While the loss of any child is tragic, the truth is that those numbers above are for a five-year span, so if you break it down annually, things look different.<\/p>\n

Take these domestic shootings, for example. That\u2019s 173.2 per year.<\/p>\n

According to the CDC<\/a>, in 2020, 607 kids were killed in car accidents. That puts those numbers in stark contrast.<\/p>\n

None of this is to say that we don\u2019t have an issue. The idea of any parent or guardian killing the child in their charge is troubling, to say the least. It\u2019s representative of a very real problem, one we need to address as a nation in some way, shape, or form.<\/p>\n

However, additional gun regulations\u2013something the author does seem to favor later in the piece\u2013aren\u2019t likely to keep children alive. After all, a violent parent or guardian has alternatives for taking a child\u2019s life if that\u2019s what they want to do.<\/p>\n

It makes more sense to deal with this at the source in the first place by addressing the reasons for domestic violence. Undermine that and you have nothing to worry about going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USA Today actually frames scope of mass shootings correctly When it comes to framing the discussion around mass shootings, USA Today has a, well, let\u2019s call it a spotty track record. After all, they\u2019re the same ones who thought the\u00a0chainsaw bayonet\u00a0was an actual, common thing that people attach to their AR-15s. That doesn\u2019t help their … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91276,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91275\/revisions\/91276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}