Jeff Tiedrich tweet of the afternoon:

[tblue37]

Link to tweet

holy fucking shit, over SIX THOUSAND American children were killed by guns last year. but sure, let's lose our fucking minds over the imaginary damage done by a handful of drag performers. it's a rounding error away from ZERO, you overwrought fucking dipshits. grow the fuck up

[Cha]

1. Oh Yeah!! Ty & JT

[spanone]

2. We're dealing with irrational people.

[DENVERPOPS]

6. And

also delusional............

[sanatanadharma]

8. Brain-derangement

A symptom of Fox virus

[Glaisne]

21. Do you ever read the comments to his tweets?

Oh, hell yeah we certainly are dealing with irrational, stupid, and awful people and there are a lot of them! It's sad.

[SheltieLover]

3. Yup!

[KS Toronado]

5. You miss all the bad weather young lady?

[docgee]

4. Sorry Jeff, they don't know what rounding error means.

[lindysalsagal]

7. Damage to children is their cover: This is fascist hate. If they can get away with it,

all women and all blacks are next. We will lose rights at every turn, including voting rights.

[rictofen]

9. What's his source for that?

That seems ridiculously high.

[spooky3]

10. Here's a source--IDK if that's what he read:

https://everytownresearch.org/issue/child-teen-safety/#what-is-the-problem

[ShazzieB]

15. I'm going to guess he read something that broke the numbers down further.

The source you linked says:

Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens (ages 1 to 19) in the United States. Every year, 19,000 children and teens are shot and killed or wounded and approximately 3 million are exposed to gun violence.

Unless I missed something, they don't say how many were killed (as opposed to "just" wounded), but 6,000 deaths out of a total of 19,000 "killed or wounded" doesn't sound disproportionate to me. (I can't believe I just typed that, but hopefully you all know what I mean. )

[spooky3]

18. See the bar chart in the article. Nt

[rictofen]

16. Thanks

That site has a link to CDC data, from which I got this:

363 deaths of children [ages 0-11] by firearm, in 2021.

That's too many of course, but I'm glad it's not 6,000+.

[spooky3]

17. If you look at the bar chart in the linked article

It shows about 2450 teens and children were victims of gun homicide; another 1295 committed suicide with guns, and there were a few other categories.

[rictofen]

20. But the vast majority of those who see that tweet are going to go on believing

"SIX THOUSAND American children were killed by guns last year."

Teen vs child, and death vs injuries are big distinctions. Someone with Tiedrich's reach should do better. Certainly, we never let it slide when some RWer does it. I'm sure they like to play games with something like fentanyl OD statistics [although that, too, is a serious problem and getting worse every year].

[Iggo]

11. Killed or injured. Don't worry. You can keep your precious.

Ten seconds to google it by the way. You’re welcome.

[rictofen]

19. Killed or injured is still nowhere close

According to the Gun Violence Archive someone posted below, 996 children were killed or injured by firearms in 2022, with 314 of those being deaths.

Incidentally, I have as many "preciouses" as Tiedrich has sources that he cited. I guess...why bother, right? He's only passing this stuff off to a million plus followers, plus however many random eyeballs it reaches.

[panader0]

12. Gun violence is the number one cause of childhood deaths.

[republianmushroom]

13. I like it

[TigressDem]

14. Total Number of GV Deaths IN 2023 - ALL Causes 7,408

TWO MONTHS AND 1 DAY.




https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/


Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU
3,184
Suicide
4,224

Number of Children (age 0-11)
Killed 39
Injured 102

Number of Teens (age 12-17)
Killed 260
Injured 612

[erpowers]

22. Kids Not Forced to Attend

For me the bigger issue is that kids are not forced to attend Drag Queen Story time. If people do not want drag queens to read to their kids, those people can just keep their kids from attending the storytime. I could understand the anger if Drag Queen Storytime was a mandatory thing, but it is not mandatory. There is no reason for the reaction from Republicans.