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Government, Staggering Statistic Britney Achin Government, Staggering Statistic Britney Achin

Fewer Guns = Fewer Deaths

This week’s attack in Uvalde, Texas was the 199th mass shooting of 2022. That averages 10 such attacks a week, according to Gun Violence Archive, an independent data organization. The Archive defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, excluding the shooter. In Uvalde, 19 children and two adults were killed, the deadliest incident so far this year. It should be noted that other groups, such as …

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Staggering Statistic, Healthcare Britney Achin Staggering Statistic, Healthcare Britney Achin

The tragedy of maternal deaths in the US

As the question looms about whether or not women in this country will continue to have the right to decide when and if they have children, we thought it important to look at the unequal care and consideration that pregnant women in this country receive. Perhaps no other problem is more emblematic of intersectionality – what the Oxford Dictionary defines as “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage” – than maternal health care in the richest country in the world. So here goes.

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Staggering Statistic Brenda Riddell Staggering Statistic Brenda Riddell

Staggering Statistics and Devastating Details

This is our second edition of “Staggering Statistics and Devastating Details.” This time we are focusing on guns – who has them and what happens because of their availability. We hope these facts will not only alarm you but also provide compelling “backup” when others oppose or question your position on issues. “The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts,” wrote author Sam Harris. “Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.”

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Staggering Statistics and Devastating Details

We decided to change it up this week. Instead of presenting an in-depth look at one issue, we are offering some staggering statistics and devastating details about a variety of social justice issues of concern to us. We hope you will find them as compelling as we do — and as clarion calls to action for all of us.

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