Here we go again, living in a civilized society, with up to the minute media coverage of another massacre of innocent children. You all know the details but if you need a refresher, CNN has the story (as do most other news outlets).

Once again, the world is watching. Does the U.S. have the will to do anything about this. Doubtful. As a big fan of the Golden State Warriors, I appreciated Steve Kerr’s comments.

Earlier we reported that firearms were the second leading cause of death among U.S. children.

On April 24, 2022, USA Today reported on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studying finding that firearms became the leading cause of death among children and teenagers in the United States in 2020. The finding comes after a record 45,222 people died from firearm-related injuries in 2020 in the U.S., according to a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Most of the deaths were from firearm homicide.

Per USA Today, for more than 60 years, motor vehicle accidents had been the leading cause of deaths of young people, but since 2001, the number of those deaths has dramatically decreased. There were about 3,900 deaths in 2020. Meanwhile, firearm-related deaths have been on the rise since 2013; there was a 29.5% increase from 2019 to 2020.

This 2019 article from “The Conversation” by University of Michigan academics identifies some of the key trends in child and adolescent deaths in the U.S. Most of them have been highly preventable.

This did not start out to be a Minneapolis focused site, but here we are. Teenagers shooting high school kids in Richfield.

• This post from NPR