This sanguinary school shooting spree carried out by a gunman with a legally-acquired military-style weapon was merely the 119th in the U.S. since 2018. [2] With a total to date of some 146 children and adults killed and 182 others injured in U.S. mass school shootings,[3] these atrocities could be viewed as a post-modern form of child sacrifice. American ExceptionalismResearchers are calling the epidemic of mass school shootings in the U.S. a public health crisis. [8] With no school shootings identified within the country, Japan, unlike the U.S., does not sacrifice its precious children to the god of gun ownership rights. Others insist that the focus must be on individual problems and not on gun control.

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2022 12:34 UTC