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   From: IronWhite@SystemicPatriotism.org   
      
   Guns keep the USA's population in check.   On some occasions the number of   
   shooting deaths outnumbered the number of motor vehicle accident deaths.   
      
   It should be clear by now that Americans can't handle guns.   Unlike   
   Switzerland and Israel where there are few shootings and ample firearm   
   ownership.  Gun owners say it's not the guns but the fact that Americans   
   are mentally ill and like shooting other Americans.   
   If Americans were smart they would be rounding up and killing Russians   
   because the Putin-loving Slavic vermin deserve to die.   
      
   How many lives have been lost in school shootings in the US this year?   
      
      
   Two children were killed and 17 others were injured in a shooting at the   
   Annunciation Catholic School in South Minneapolis on Wednesday.   
      
   The shooting is at least the fifth at K-12 schools in the U.S. since the   
   school year began on Aug. 1, according to the anti-gun violence advocacy   
   organization Everytown for Gun Safety.   
      
   Gun control advocates are once again calling for firearm restrictions to   
   protect children in schools in the wake of the shooting.   
   Law enforcement officers set up barriers after a shooting at Annunciation   
   Church, which is also home to a an elementary school, in Minneapolis,   
   Minnesota, August 27, 2025.   
   Ben Brewer/Reuters   
      
   "Kids have only been back to their classrooms for a few weeks, and already   
   this school year is scarred by multiple shootings. No parent should fear   
   sending their child to school. No child should pray for safety in a   
   church," the student-led gun control advocacy group March for Our Lives   
   said in a statement Wednesday.   
      
   There have been at least 57 shootings at K-12 schools in 2025, not   
   including Wednesday's shooting in Minneapolis, according to Everytown for   
   Gun Safety, which says of the 47 people shot in those prior incidents at   
   least 15 were killed.   
   MORE: Minneapolis shooting: 8-year-old and 10-year-old killed, 17 others   
   hurt at Catholic school   
      
   "What should be a day of hope has turned into a day of horror for yet   
   another school community," John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun   
   Safety, said in a statement on Wednesday in response to the Minneapolis   
   shooting. "All signs point to this tragedy being perpetrated by an assault   
   weapon, which begs a question: How many more Americans must die before   
   lawmakers ban these weapons of war?"   
   Law enforcement officers gather outside Annunciation Church following a   
   mass shooting event, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 27, 2025.   
   Tim Evans/Reuters   
      
   While police said the suspected shooter was armed with a rifle, a shotgun   
   and a pistol, officials as of Wednesday afternoon had not specified the   
   exact type of rifle used by the shooter, whom police said died by a self-   
   inflicted gunshot wound.   
      
   Shots are being fired at schools in the U.S. nearly twice a week on   
   average, according to statistics compiled by Everytown. There have been at   
   least 90 incidents of gunfire on school grounds in 2025, resulting in 29   
   deaths and 69 injuries nationally, according to the group.   
   Law enforcement officers gather outside the Annunciation Church's school in   
   response to a reported mass shooting, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis.   
   Mark Vancleave/AP   
      
   "As a mom who just sent my little ones back to school and as a woman of   
   faith, I am devastated that yet again children are dead and more are   
   fighting for their lives after being gunned down at school and in a   
   church," Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of the gun safety   
   advocacy group Moms Demand Action, said in a statement. "How many more of   
   our babies have to die before Congress finally gets these weapons of war   
   off our streets?"   
      
   "This is the reality we're growing up in. Nowhere feels safe," said   
   Timberlyn Mazeikis, a gun violence survivor from the 2023 shooting at   
   Michigan State University and a Minnesota volunteer for Students Demand   
   Action, another student-led gun control advocacy group. "One week into the   
   school year, colleges are under constant lockdown hoaxes while kids are   
   being shot at school. Until we get weapons of war off our streets, students   
   will keep getting shot and killed and this will continue to be our   
   reality."   
      
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