Jones told Teen Vogue that "more policing does not lead to community safety." (The thousands of black men who are still alive thanks to Mayor Rudy Giuliani's more policing policy would disagree.) Instead, Jones proposed "more funding to social workers, public education [and] ending poverty." (Why didn't anybody else think of that?). Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter "We've heard a lot lately about how Republicans don't care about dead kids -- just keep your hands off their guns! The bullhorn insurrection staged by Tennessee legislators, for example, was justified on the grounds that they were JUST TRYING TO SAVE CHILDREN'S LIVES!!!
"As MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell put it, the bullhorn episode showed "who is trying to protect the children of Tennessee and who isn't."
"The amazing statistic that's supposed to make us give up our guns PRONTO is that since 2020, gun violence has become the leading cause of death for American children.
"You're supposed to be thinking of the little kids killed in school shootings, like in Uvalde or the Christian school in Nashville. In fact, the odds that a child will be killed in a mass school shooting are 1 in 10 million.
"The trick is that "children" includes 16-to-19-year-old gang members. Exclude 16-to-19-year-olds, and the number of kids killed by guns every year plummets from 2,811 to a few hundred.
"This will come as a surprise to most people because black-on-black violence is not considered newsworthy. (By contrast, any white-on-black violence, even the sort of thing that wouldn't make local news if the perp were black, will get front-page coverage at The New York Times, international headlines and a call from the president.)
"Based on arrests reported in the local news, here are a few recent examples of "children" being killed by gun violence. You will notice that none of these suspected homicides would have been prevented even if Republicans gave up all their guns.". . .
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