By Brandon Luper
All the reader will get by reading this short article are some facts and figures about gun violence in the United States. My hope is that, having crammed all these calculations and statistics into her brain, the reader’s picture of what America’s gun culture is really like will go from snowy screen analog to crisp, digital high definition.
If the reader is up for such a journey, let’s
get started. During the 2013-2014 school year, there were 47 school shootings
in the United States. That’s one every
four school days. 31 people have been killed in these shootings, many more
injured. And, despite Eliot Rodgers’ misogynistic rampage at University of
California Santa Barbara on May 23, it should be noted that this is a down year.
