{"id":10602,"date":"2021-04-22T13:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=10602"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:05:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:05:30","slug":"tim-giago-mass-shootings-are-almost-becoming-a-daily-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/04\/22\/tim-giago-mass-shootings-are-almost-becoming-a-daily-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Giago: Mass shootings are almost becoming a daily affair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, President Biden announced new actions the Administration is taking to curb the epidemic of gun violence in America.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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The White House: President Biden Announces Initial Steps To Reduce Gun Violence<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n
Notes from Indian Country<\/div>\r\n
It is long past time to end the gun madness in America<\/div>\r\n
Thursday, April 22, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji \u2013 Stands Up For Them)<\/div>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nWe are reeling from the mass shootings that are almost becoming a daily affair. From Atlanta to Indianapolis, the mass killings go on and on.

<\/P>\r\nThe US policy of constantly endangering our children is enacted by a bought-and-paid-for Congress on behalf of 10 major gun manufacturers with an $8 billion industry. Most Americans don\u2019t have or want a gun, and 50% of all guns in the US are owned by 3% of Americans, i.e. some 6 million people out of 320 million. That three percent would be just fine if they were subjected to better security checks and a ban on assault weapons. In 2019 (i.e. before the distorting pandemic) there were 413 mass shootings in the US.

<\/P>\r\nAlthough guns in the hands of people with mental problems is the major cause of these mass shootings, the fact that the police are so quick to pull their guns and kill innocent people at minor traffic stops is also a huge problem for this country. The Black Lives Matter protests now taking place in Minnesota is clear evidence of that. Why do America\u2019s police even have to carry guns?

<\/P>\r\nIn England, where police do not carry guns there were 33 gun homicides last year; while the US had 10,258.

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The March For Our Lives took place in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2018, to call for gun reforms in the U.S. Photo: Phil Roeder<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nIn fact, when a mass shooting was carried out, by a white nationalist terrorist at a mosque in New Zealand last March, 2019, the New Zealand government promptly banned semi-automatic assault weapons. It just took one (admittedly horrific) incident. In the US, hundreds of mass shootings a year don\u2019t soften the hearts of our bought-and-paid-for legislators even a little bit.

<\/P>\r\nLet me give you a personal example. My stepson, Earl, was having some mental problems. In Rapid City, even today, finding help for people with mental problems, is extremely hard. His mother and I took him to see more than one doctor and each doctor wrote him a prescription for pills. And that was about it. We knew Earl had problems because he had begun to talk to himself and he imagined that there were some bad guys at the Cornerstone Mission Shelter Home that wanted to kill his mother.

<\/P>\r\nWith that fear, and even though he had been to see a couple of doctors, he was still able to go into a pawn shop and buy a pistol. He went down to the Cornerstone Mission and slightly wounded a guy and when he was told by the police to put down the weapon he did not. But all it would have taken was for the policed to call us, his parents, and we would have been there in five minutes and we would have been able to get him to put the gun down. But that didn\u2019t happen. \r\n

<\/P>\r\nInstead a Rapid City Police Officer, from behind a tree, using a rifle, fired a bullet through Earl\u2019s heart and killed him. Any teenager with a BB gun knows how to aim at a target and this officer should have shot him in the leg or shoulder. He did not need to shoot him through the heart. Earl would be alive today if the Rapid City Police Department knew how to deal with people with mental problems and weren\u2019t so quick to kill.

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