I hope this doesn’t sound callous but it is a fact that six teenagers die every day because of automobile accidents on American roads yet there isn’t 24-hour news coverage lamenting for them and their families who are just as deserving as 17 who die in a school shooting every couple of years or so.
As a matter of fact, today and every day around 21,000 children die around the world for various reasons. Why are these tragedies not in the headlines?
Are the lives of mass murdered children families more deserving of national sympathy and days of continuous coverage than the 21,000 who die ever f’n day?
To your point, there are more than 17 murders PER WEEK on the streets of Chicago. Where gun laws are as strict as anywhere.