Shooting at Georgia High School Leaves at Least Four Dead

Published SEP 4 2024

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Above: Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith speaks to the media after a shooting at Apalachee High School on September 4, 2024 in Winder, Georgia. Image copyright: Megan Varner/Stringer/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Spin

With yet another school shooting on the books, the country is bound to hear lots of 'condolences' without any promises of concrete change. Even though they know guns are the leading cause of death for young Americans, and that school shootings have risen exponentially, politicians refuse to keep these weapons away from attackers. Thankfully, the Georgia state government has been studying policies on safe storage of guns, so hopefully they will turn it into law.

Everytown

Before the 1990s, which is when school shootings began, America still had loads of guns but the idea of a school shooting was unheard of. Today, countries like Switzerland have comparable gun ownership rates but no mass shootings. The answer may be that mass shootings began at the same time the pharmaceutical industry began giving millions of Americans antidepressants, which are known to induce suicidal and homicidal tendencies.