How much is your child’s life worth? Check the real-time school shooting dashboard.
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How do gun lobby political donations affect the number of children killed in school shootings?
Check the number of shooting deaths, the state's gun policies and the amount of gun lobby donations to politicians in that state with this realtime dashboard. This map is automatically updated with new shooting data thanks based on the K12 School Shooting Database created by David Riedman.
How many school shootings have there been? Deaths? Injuries?
When did it happen? How many shots were fired? What was the background?
What is PLACA - the law that shields the gun industry from any liability for the harm it causes?
Which Republicans got the most money from the gun lobby?
What can you do protect your child's safety from a school shooting?
Listen to podcast interviews with parents of a shooting victim and gun safety reform activists.
Use the School Shooting dashboard to determine how much your child's life is worth relative to gun lobby political donations.
Follow the gun lobby money behind school children being slaughtered
Dashboards make it simple
Dashboards organize information so that you can make sense of a lot of data. It's like when you're driving and you can see your speed, gas level and other details about your car at a glance. The dashboard changes automatically by the second. This School Shooting Dashboard similarly presents the facts about school shootings as they happen. David refreshes the database that powers this map regularly with every new shooting incident.
This dashboard provides totals of the number of school shooting incidents, deaths and injuries. This helps provide a better sense of the scope of this tragedy and where the shootings took place. Where in the school and when did the shooting occur? How many bullets were fired?
How to use the Real-time School Shooting dashboard
Use the search bar to find 'Uvalde' for instance. Check the legend to see how each dot is proportional to the number of killed and wounded shooting victims.
Shooting incident at Robb Elementary School, Uvalde, TX claimed 39 victim(s).
Killed: 21
Wounded: 18
Time: 11:30 AM
Location: Inside School Building Inside School Building
Shots fired: 250
Indiscriminate attack at school
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Click the forward arrow for the Texas MAGA Republicans and how to contact them with one click.
Senators
John Cornyn (R) (202) 224-2934
Ted Cruz (R) (202) 224-5922
Governor
Greg Abbott (R)
(512) 463-2000
State Attorney General
Ken Paxton (R)
(512) 463-2100
Follow the blood money
Follow the Axios link to see the GOP lawmakers who get the most cash from gun rights groups. In the wake of the Uvalde Texas elementary school shooting, where 19 kids and 2 adults were killed, there is renewed scrutiny on the hundreds of thousands of dollars Republican lawmakers have received in campaign contributions from groups supporting gun rights.Follow the Axios link to see the GOP lawmakers who get the most cash from gun rights groups.
Cruz has received over $442,000 from gun rights groups, according to Open Secrets, an organization that tracks money in U.S. politics. Texas' other senator, John Cornyn (R), is another one of the top lawmakers to receive financial contributions from gun rights supporters amounting to around $340,000. - Axios
Podcasts with people touched by gun violence and advocating for gun safety
Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, Founders of Survivors Empowered discuss their reaction and activism as a result of the murder of their daughter Jessi, killed in the Aurora Colorado theatre 2012 mass shooting. Their organization is focused on regulating companies that sell ammunition and repealing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
David Riedman, Founder and Independent Researcher of the K-12 School Shooting Database peels back the layers of the challenges of predicting and preventing school shootings. One significant step is to collect data and fill in the missing pieces to get a better sense of who is most at risk of being involved in a school shooting and actions that can be taken to protect students and staff.
Po Murray, Co-Founder and Chairwoman of the Newtown Action Alliance discusses the variations in state and federal laws protecting residents from gun violence. Since Uvalde, there have been changes in the awareness of the need for background checks and holding stakeholders responsible for public safety. Citizen activists are pushing for state and federal legislation to pierce the shield that protects weapon sales.
TakeAway: Stop the gun lobby using blood money political donations to boost their profits. Vote for President Biden and Democrats to curb the carnage from senseless gun violence.
Deepak
DemLabs
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