To me, this is summing up what I (and anyone looking) might be able to make of the realities at hand!
Serious stuff! I've been meaning to add to this blog.. I think it's time I do.. Just felt a nudge. If you wanna hear more... please subscribe.. as my heart is heavy and it certainly encourages me to know I am not just writing to the wind :) ...in the last times
(insert scriptures here)
I'll brb with that (above)...
Meantime... Thanks for dropping in and do come back! and pass this on. you never know who's heart it may touch...
also: if interested... be looking for the link (more as a reminder to me--as I have short term memory issues (to a large degree) ) so watch for the link to my autobiographical memoir book via blogger, a little, by bit ...at a time... Encompassing my life story and healing journey in process....
But back to the news :
Amazing and Sobering at once... which leaves me to wonder--what would the map look like form recent times, from back when the Columbine shootings happened ? :( ?
This map shows every school shooting since Sandy Hook
An as-yet unidentified school shooter attacked Reynolds High School in Portland Oregon today, killing at least one student. It was the 74th school shooting since Adam Lanza's infamous assault on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut — and, as this map shows, they've happened all over the country.
Shootings at K-12 schools in red, at colleges/universities in purple. Everytown for Gun Safety/Mark Gongloff
The data comes from Everytown for Gun Safety, a recently formed gun control advocacy group. Everytown defines school shooting as "assaults, homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings" that take place "inside a school building or on school or campus grounds." Huffington Post editor Mark Gongloff mapped Everytown's data and tweeted it out.
It's hard to find statistically reliable research about school shootings, but there's no doubt gun violence is still a serious problem in America. Despite the fact that the gun homicide death has declined substantially in the past two decades, about 11,000 Americans are still killed every year in firearm homicides. About 19,000 die in gun suicides.
That's a much higher rate than anywhere else in the developed world. The causes are complicated, but there's mounting evidence that America's loose gun laws contribute to both the suicide and homicide problem.
