The foregoing, according to the report of an organization released when the massacre in Parkland (Florida) is almost four years old, the largest massacre in a school in this country.
According to Everytown for Gun Safety, between August 1 and December 31, 2021, there were 136 firearms incidents on school grounds in the United States, a number that is almost four times the average for that period since 2013, when the organization began its accounting.
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The 136 shootings in schools resulted in 26 deaths and 96 injuries, states the report released on Friday, which adds that three out of four of those who unleashed the shots obtained the weapon at home.
“It has been a devastating first half of the school year, and without meaningful action from all levels of government, more students and teachers will be fired, more communities will be traumatized and more children will spend their days worrying about gun violence,” said Shannon Watts. , founder of Moms Demand Action, which is part of Everytown for Gun Safety.
Sari Kaufman, a survivor of the massacre of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, criticized that “too often legislators see the pain and trauma of survivors and do nothing” and stressed that “thoughts, prayers and social media posts are not going to solve the problem.”
“Although four years have passed since the day my life changed, not a moment goes by that I don’t remember what happened,” Kaufman said in a statement released by the organization.
Next Monday will be four years since the massacre that occurred in the South Florida high school, for which its confessed author, the young Nikolas Cruz, pleaded guilty last year and awaits sentencing in a Broward County jail, in South Florida.
The beginning of the selection process of the twelve members of the jury has been postponed, at the request of both the prosecution and the defense, until April, as announced by Judge Elizabeth Scherer.
The young man was 19 years old when he entered his old school armed with a rifle and perpetrated the massacre, a fact for which he faces life imprisonment or capital punishment, in the latter case unanimity among the 12 members of the jury will be required.
Cruz, who was expelled from the center for misconduct, has been detained ever since and has been in trouble at the prison, where he got into a fight with a guard.
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