Gun violence still a big issue despite flurry of election topics, advocates say

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Source: ABC News

October 26, 2024, 6:02 AM


From the June 28 debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump to the Oct. 1 vice presidential debate of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance, at least 134 people were killed in 148 mass shootings across the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

But during those roughly three months and since, the issue of gun violence prevention, according to some advocates, has been overshadowed by a flurry of hot-button campaign topics: The state of the economy, abortion rights, wars raging in the Middle East and Ukraine, two assassination attempts on Trump and the shifting political landscape in which Vice President Kamala Harris succeeded Biden as the Democratic nominee.

"Gun violence is still one of the most important issues facing our country. We still have an ongoing epidemic," said Nicole Hockley, the CEO of Sandy Hook Promise -- a gun violence prevention group she co-founded following the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children, including her son, and six adult staff members dead.

In an interview this week with ABC News, Hockley cited a Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions report that said for three straight years gun violence has been the leading cause of death in the United States for adolescents under the age of 19.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/gun-violence-election-2024/story?id=115060937

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1. Kinda on topic

I was listening to Sirius this morning to a countdown program from the 80s. The announcer said that Pat Benatar had a big hit way back when but she never sings it live now. And never will. “Hit me with your best shot.” She said gun violence made her decide to quit singing it. Small but correct step and so freaking sad.

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2. Yeah that was a big song back then

and there were dozens like that in the "pre-AWB" era. What was once "figurative" as speech, has eventually become triggering nowadays.