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No relation to the story, I was just in a brunette-with-gun mood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Breaking news on Thursday – remember the Virginia 1st grade teacher who was shot by a 6-year old? Not quite three years ago, Abby Zwerner was shot in her classroom by a kid on his first day back from a two-day suspension for slamming her phone. Might maybe be a few anger issues which need to be addressed, hmmh? Anyway, Zwerner sued three school officials who she said should have acted, but the judge limited the suit to the vice principal,\u00a0 Ebony Parker.<\/p>\n

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Parker was the only defendant in the lawsuit. A judge previously dismissed the district\u2019s superintendent and the school principal as defendants.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit said Parker had a duty to protect Zwerner and others from harm after being told about the gun. Zwerner\u2019s attorneys said Parker failed to act in the hours before the shooting after several school staff members told her that the student had a gun in his backpack.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have to admit I was skeptical about the original suit. But, after hearing that Ms. Parker was told hours before by multiple staff… yep, I can see the $10,000,000 judgement as right.<\/p>\n

Parker faces a separate criminal trial this month on eight counts of felony child neglect. Each of the counts is punishable by up to five years in prison in the event of a conviction.\u00a0AP<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Parker’s lawyer warned the jury against 20-20 hindsight… sounds like Mr. Magoo could have seen this coming.<\/p>\n

For those who think their gun is “out of reach” – how did the kid get the the gun? His mother had it in her purse…which he accessed by climbing onto a drawer. (The mother got four years for felony child neglect and federal weapons charges, too)<\/p>\n

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Anti-gun folks like to say “more children die from guns than anything else!” We know that is nonsense – especially when you parse the data with real world figures. (Like that 23 and 24-year olds are not ‘children’. Funny how they are children in this context, but Dems want to think for voting that 16 year olds are mature adults?) Let’s look at a few facts from John Lott:<\/p>\n

For those under age 18, vehicle deaths are consistently greater than those from firearms. When you use the FBI murder data, the vehicle deaths exceed the firearm deaths for 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023 \u2014 and likely 2021, though the FBI data isn\u2019t available for that year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, more tellingly – let’s look at murders, especially drug-related:<\/p>\n

About 72% of the firearm murders for those under 18 involve 15-, 16-, and 17-year-olds. So that would be 40% of all the firearm deaths. About 57% of those involve 16- and 17-year-olds. That is 32% of all firearm deaths. These deaths are largely gang-related, and even banning guns is unlikely to stop drug gangs from getting a hold of guns to protect their extremely valuable drugs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Suffocation? Maybe even more of a niche stat – but:<\/p>\n

Suffocation deaths for those under 18 are greater than total firearm deaths using the FBI data in both 2019 and 2020 (2,253 and 2,110, respectively). It is almost the same as the number in 2022 and 2023 (2,154 and 2,042, respectively).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Suicide? The majority of all firearms deaths, and taking it out of the stats reduces the percentages another 30-40% mas o meno.<\/p>\n

Accidental shooting deaths? Under 10 years old, fewer than 50 annually. Under age 18? Less than 100.<\/p>\n

Worth reading.\u00a0Crime Prevention Research Center\/BFA<\/a><\/p>\n

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