Try to fathom this: America has nearly thirty times the amount of gun violence as Australia, New Zealand, and Germany; nearly fifteen times that of Austria and Denmark; nearly ten times that of the Netherlands; nearly seven times that of Sweden, Finland, and Iceland; six times that of Canada; five times that of Luxembourg and Belgium; and four times that of Switzerland. (United Nations data compiled by the Guardian.) Why? And why don't we do something about it? Another way of looking at that: Americans make up less than 5 percent of the world’s population yet own roughly 42 percent of all the world’s privately held firearms.

These two facts — on gun deaths and firearm ownership — are related. The research, compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Injury Control Research Center, is pretty clear: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gun deaths. Researchers have found this to be true not just with homicides, but also with suicides (which in recent years were around 60 percent of US gun deaths), domestic violence, and even violence against police.

For example, a 2013 study, led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher, found that, after controlling for multiple variables, each percentage point increase in gun ownership correlated with a roughly 0.9 percent rise in the firearm homicide rate.

We are complicit in these mass shootings. Gun control works and we need to do more to protect our children.

Try to fathom this: America has nearly thirty times the amount of gun violence as Australia, New Zealand, and Germany; nearly fifteen times that of Austria and Denmark; nearly ten times that of the Netherlands; nearly seven times that of Sweden, Finland, and Iceland; six times that of Canada; five times that of Luxembourg and Belgium; and four times that of Switzerland. (United Nations data compiled by the Guardian.) Why? And why don't we do something about it? Another way of looking at that: Americans make up less than 5 percent of the world’s population yet own roughly 42 percent of all the world’s privately held firearms.

These two facts — on gun deaths and firearm ownership — are related. The research, compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Injury Control Research Center, is pretty clear: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gun deaths. Researchers have found this to be true not just with homicides, but also with suicides (which in recent years were around 60 percent of US gun deaths), domestic violence, and even violence against police.

For example, a 2013 study, led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher, found that, after controlling for multiple variables, each percentage point increase in gun ownership correlated with a roughly 0.9 percent rise in the firearm homicide rate.

We are complicit in these mass shootings. Gun control works and we need to do more to protect our children.

Try to fathom this: America has nearly thirty times the amount of gun violence as Australia, New Zealand, and Germany; nearly fifteen times that of Austria and Denmark; nearly ten times that of the Netherlands; nearly seven times that of Sweden, Finland, and Iceland; six times that of Canada; five times that of Luxembourg and Belgium; and four times that of Switzerland. (United Nations data compiled by the Guardian.) Why? And why don't we do something about it? Another way of looking at that: Americans make up less than 5 percent of the world’s population yet own roughly 42 percent of all the world’s privately held firearms.

These two facts — on gun deaths and firearm ownership — are related. The research, compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Injury Control Research Center, is pretty clear: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gun deaths. Researchers have found this to be true not just with homicides, but also with suicides (which in recent years were around 60 percent of US gun deaths), domestic violence, and even violence against police.

For example, a 2013 study, led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher, found that, after controlling for multiple variables, each percentage point increase in gun ownership correlated with a roughly 0.9 percent rise in the firearm homicide rate.

We are complicit in these mass shootings. Gun control works and we need to do more to protect our children.

Proposals have flooded the market, bubba, who is listening? We protect airports, court houses, police stations, banks and financial institutions, jewelry stores, armored trucks, and other public venues. There are metal detectors, X-ray machines, and armed security in many public places, our elected officials have armed body guards, but we provide no such protections or security for our school kids. Why is that?

Having said that, some police departments, schools and citizens are doing something about it. Texas, for example, has in place the option for any school, school district, and teachers to take what ever measures they see fit to provide security for the kids. Teachers in Texas can, and some do, train in armed self defense and carry concealed firearms, schools in Texas are allowed to install metal detectors through which ALL those entering must pass, backpacks are inspected, and so on. There were armed officers at the school in Santa Fe, had they not been there, the body count may have been much higher.

Have you ever heard of a mass shooting in any Israeli schools?

Bottom line though, is the erosion of our culture and rampant immorality--political correctness run amock.

You can run that Klan changed parties all you want, but the truth of the matter is that the Democratic Party and the Klu Klux Klan are one and the same. The Klan was formed and populated by Democrats, the Democrats voted against all laws of equality through the 50s and 60s and right up to today.

The civil rights laws of the sixties passed with the majority of the votes for passage being cast by Republicans and most of the democrats voting against. You can run your bullshit lies all you want, but the facts stand, most of the racism against blacks was, and still is perpetuated, by the duplicitous Democrats.

Try to fathom this: America has nearly thirty times the amount of gun violence as Australia, New Zealand, and Germany; nearly fifteen times that of Austria and Denmark; nearly ten times that of the Netherlands; nearly seven times that of Sweden, Finland, and Iceland; six times that of Canada; five times that of Luxembourg and Belgium; and four times that of Switzerland. (United Nations data compiled by the Guardian.) Why? And why don't we do something about it? Another way of looking at that: Americans make up less than 5 percent of the world’s population yet own roughly 42 percent of all the world’s privately held firearms.

These two facts — on gun deaths and firearm ownership — are related. The research, compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Injury Control Research Center, is pretty clear: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gun deaths. Researchers have found this to be true not just with homicides, but also with suicides (which in recent years were around 60 percent of US gun deaths), domestic violence, and even violence against police.

For example, a 2013 study, led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher, found that, after controlling for multiple variables, each percentage point increase in gun ownership correlated with a roughly 0.9 percent rise in the firearm homicide rate.

We are complicit in these mass shootings. Gun control works and we need to do more to protect our children.