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The US has had 57 times as many school shootings as the other major industrialized nations
The definition: The parameters we followed in this count
- Shooting must involve at least one person being shot (not including the shooter)
- Shooting must occur on school grounds
- We included gang violence, fights and domestic violence (but our count is NOT limited to those categories)
- We included grades Kindergarten through college/university level as well as vocational schools
- We included accidental discharge of a firearm as long as the first two parameters are met
The analysis: For US stats, CNN reviewed media reports and a variety of databases including those from the Gun Violence Archive and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. For international stats, we looked at local and national media reports.
The caveat: Reporting on non-fatal school shootings is not always available. There may be additional school shootings with injuries that did not make it into the newspaper or digital publications, and therefore aren’t counted in databases that rely on media reports. This is true for shootings in the US and elsewhere.
What we found:
There have been at least 288 school shootings in the United States since January 1, 2009.
That’s 57 times as many shootings as the other six G7 countries combined.
Broadening out the list
Next, we wanted to broaden our list out to include some countries that were mentioned in a few of the viral posts that were going around this weekend.
In some of the incidents, the casualty count is very high (the Peshawar siege; the Kenya attack). But when it comes to the frequency of attacks, the US still leads by a wide margin.
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Florida Republicans eye total ban on abortions
The GOP lawmakers’ comments indicate that the fight over abortion rights in Florida is just beginning.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/24/florida-republicans-total-abortion-ban-00034887
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Gov. Kevin Stitt expected to sign bill banning abortion at fertilization
Abortions will likely stop in Oklahoma by the end of the week after the governor signs House Bill 4327 into law.
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Positive results in Seattle tonight.
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Businesses that help employees get abortions could be next target of Texas lawmakers if Roe v. Wade is overturned
Fourteen GOP legislators warned Lyft that they’d seek to ban companies that pay for abortions from doing business in Texas. The extent of support for the idea is unclear.
With Texas poised to automatically ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, some Republicans are already setting their sights on the next target to fight the procedure: businesses that say they’ll help employees get abortions outside the state.
Fourteen Republican members of the state House of Representatives have pledged to introduce bills in the coming legislative session that would bar corporations from doing business in Texas if they pay for abortions in states where the procedure is legal.
This would explicitly prevent firms from offering employees access to abortion-related care through health insurance benefits. It would also expose executives to criminal prosecution under pre-Roe anti-abortion laws the Legislature never repealed, the legislators say.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/23/texas-companies-pay-abortions/
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10 minutes ago, Dashinka said:
It was after and from what I read, the plant was not responsible for the issue. Regardless, as I already stated, that one plant supplies 40% of the US supply and has been down since February.
What do you want the federal government to do? Be specific.
Abbott did the right thing by shutting down and recalling product. The bacteria was present in the factory and in the infant deaths. Abbott made mistakes and is making amends. The CEO has apologized about the shortage caused by the recall in a public op-ed.
If you want a federal law that says manufacturers of food must not have 40% of the market or 25% of the production, be my guest. I might even sign on.
I am done with this thread, the only thing Biden detractors are going to accept is that the Whitehouse is at fault, and no good ideas to improve the situation.
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2 minutes ago, Dashinka said:
Competence is required, and competence is severely lacking in this Administration.
Possibly, but no evidence that makes any sense has been put forward to that effect here. If you at least told me that Biden should have detected and remediated the risk of consolidation of production and producers, I might agree with you.
But in this case folks are saying the FDA overstepped and under, side stepped at the same time. If you said the DOC should investigate hording and diversions in the market place, I would say absolutely. But if you say that you won't apply that same scrutiny to every food, drug and device in the FDA portfolio, then you are cherry picking.
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7 minutes ago, Boiler said:
This is about competency not politics
This is a highly regulated market, makes sense especially with the Chinese issues and I do not have problems with that
I have issues with not being able to differentiate between China and say Canada but whatever
Forget where I read it now but it takes many years for a new manufacture to come on stream
So when the Administration takes a bit chunk of production out and does nothing what did they think would happen?
The market is highly self regulated. The manufacturer maintains a HACCP plan and accountability for logging, reporting, recalls and remediation. QC is a 24x7 accountability of the manufacturer, with FDA oversight and periodic inspections, unlike USDA where the federal inspector is embedded in daily operations.
Where does it state that the administration took a chunk out of production? Was that before or after infants were sickened and possibly died from ingesting Abbott formula?
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3 hours ago, Dashinka said:
I believe when the first whistle-blower report showed up in October 2021, the FDA should have been immediately taken interest and been all over this plant considering it alone is responsible for around 40% of the formula produced in the US. They should have been able to make a determination in weeks whether these items pointed out were responsible for the infections reported, but instead they kept producing at least until February when they were shut-down. What was happening between October and February? What has been happening between February and now? When the plant shut down in February, a blind squirrel could have determined that this would cause issues with the supply, but our vaunted Federal government waited until the middle of May to actually do anything to reduce the impacts of the eventual shortfall.
I do love the socialist argument, no there is no need to federalize the baby formula industry. This even alone shows how inefficient the federal government is, they do not need to be in control of anything in the market place. If there are criminal findings with the folks at Abbot Labs, then criminal prosecution may be warranted.
The simple fact is the US government bureaucracy, Biden Administration, and the Democrat controlled House and Senate allowed this crisis to get out of hand. There is no excuse.
So, the Biden administration was responsible for the failure of the market place. 🤔
No doubt if they had federalized the plant in September, had that even been legal, Fox news would have featured a flash series secret buses and flights full of illegal aliens whi have been hidden in baby formula factories working toward exporting American's baby formula to Guatemala. Sounds crazy but that is a ditl of right wing media.
I liked "the right" when they stood for markets and individual accountability, at least then you could have a rational discussion about the theory and practice of government, now they are just grasping at straws.
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5 hours ago, Dashinka said:
Effective would have been addressing the problem last Fall and doing something then. I was a firefighter for years, and prevention and planning are always more effective than responding to a crisis/emergency. Everything with this Administration is a crisis.
In looking at the timeline of events, what would you want to see differently? Other than totally shutting down the factory when the first infant was sickened in September or the first inspection failure in September (I am not even sure FDA regs permit that action), what would you change? Federalize the baby formula industry? Jail Abbot Labs officers?
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4 minutes ago, ROK2USA said:
I thought at first they were criticizing my punctuation.
Fair enough. My thesis supervisor told me I had to actually read through my work before submitting drafts... but then I did a google and "punition" is an actual word?
Not sure about the penalty or sanction they were referring to... (yes I will use gender neutral pronouns... >>I'm the far left person you always read about<<)
Please use punition in a sentence: "Reading inane off topic posts where a women's right to choose is compared to wearing a mask to keep your job at burger king, In my opinion, is PUNITION enough."
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2 hours ago, Boiler said:
Apparently Biden could not do anything, looks like that was not true.
If you watch the film it mentions some of the issues this is causing
Actually none of this will hit the shelves
But we had the usual suspect there trying to milk it, pun inteneded.
This is prescription formula. The only shelves it will reach is the ones accessible by a licensed pharmacist.
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30 minutes ago, Boiler said:
This sounds like effective and appropriate federal intervention: prescription formula is airlifted from overseas to make sure doctors and pharmacists can give them to children who are lactose intolerant. What is the fault to find?
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Arkansas Republican admits abortion trigger law would cause ‘heartbreak’ if Roe is reversed
The Republican governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, has admitted that an anti-abortion trigger law that he signed on to the books would lead to “heartbreaking circumstances” if Roe v Wade is overturned, in which girls as young as 11 who became pregnant through rape or incest would be forced to give birth.
Hutchinson’s remarks give a revealing insight into the twisted human and political quandaries that are certain to arise should the US supreme court, as expected, destroy the constitutional right to an abortion enshrined in Roe v Wade when it issues its ruling next month. The governor told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that in 2019 he had signed the Arkansas trigger law, Senate Bill 6, which would ban almost all abortions the instant Roe were reversed, even though he disagreed with its lack of exceptions for incest and rape.
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58 minutes ago, Mike E said:
FUD was a term invented by IBM and perfected by Microsoft to discourage customers to avoid buying from competitors.
It is also used by political operatives to achieve a goal. .
The argument that the constitution exists to discourage FUD from spreading lawlessness is one I had not heard of, yet would not discount.
The constitution does empower me to ignore FUD though. I believe if everyone ignored FUD we would be better off.
I wouldn't say we perfected it, but we did use it. Post DOJ settlement were given special language to not to use on any email, chat our documents. Phrases such as "drive to ground", "attack the problem" , "fight for the business" we all on the naught list. I seem to remember a beta tool that would actually review the email for offensive language before you hit send.
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1 hour ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:
I do agree with that somewhat. I am wondering if he just screwing with Twitter
Like yesterday's comments where he is shocked to hear that Twitter is infested with Bots so the deal is off.
18 children, 3 adults killed in Texas elementary school shooting
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Reality: school shootings are a problem in the US
Reality: it doesn't appear to be an issue in other countries
Reality: no solution appears to be working in the US yet