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Will Trump control guns?
The Business Guardian
|December 23, 2024
Only last month President Biden had announced new laws to control gun laws Nothing happened.
Yet another day. The most powerful democracy of the world woke up to the news of another shooting in a school killing one child and teacher injuring several others. But this time the difference was that the shooter was a girl who shot herself dead after the heist.
A 15-year-old shooter was a student at the school Natalie Rupnow, who also went by the name Samantha girl opened fire in a Wisconsin school classroom on Monday leaving a fellow student and a teacher dead and wounding six others before killing herself with the handgun.
The shooting took place in a mixed-grade study hall at the Abundant Life Christian School, which has 420 students from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade on its rolls.
There have been 322 school shootings in the United States this year, according to the K-12.
School Shooting Database website. That is rated as the second highest total of any year since 1966 topped only by last year's total of 349 such shootings.
Monday's shoot was a rarity in that it was carried about by a girl. Who account for about 3% of all U.S. mass shooting, studies show.
Only last month President Biden had announced new laws to control gun laws Nothing happened.
And nothing was expected. Not because it was ordered by Biden but because the country he presides over is USA.
Now that the new President elect Donald Trump is all set to be sworn in on January 20, 2025 the question a lot of concerned parents are asking is will the New Year be any different The gun scenario in the US is scary.
This story is from the December 23, 2024 edition of The Business Guardian.
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