Minutes after the school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, many politicians took to social media to express condolences to the victims’ families.
Several key figures from the Republican party have already demanded more guns, just like Marjorie Taylor Greene, after the bloodbath on March 27.
Among those killed in Nashville were three children, three adults, and the shooter, a 28-year-old trans person. The shooter was gunned down 14 minutes after the first call.
Greene’s lengthy tweet
In part, Greene’s tweet read, “Children and school staff should always be protected the same way politicians, money, precious stones, and gold are protected, but even more so, by good guys with guns.”
She added, “Thank God for good guys with guns, and thank God a good guy with a gun killed the evil, mentally deranged shooter today.”
Greene ended with, “School shootings should NEVER happen and will end immediately when our nations children are defended the same way Joe Biden is by good guys with guns!!!”
My prayers are with the victims and families at the Covenant School in Nashville. Another absolutely horrific needless tragedy.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 27, 2023
Children and school staff should always be protected the same way politicians, money, precious stones, and gold are protected, but even more so, by…
A follow-up tweet was similar
In her second tweet, Greene attacked President Biden and basically compared going to school in the US to the actual war.
She wrote, “Biden and the Democrats send $ 100’s of billions of dollars and send guns to Ukraine to defend them from bad guys with guns.”
It ended with, “Why won’t Biden and the Democrats spend money and support legislation to defend our own innocent American school children with good guys with guns?”
Biden and the Democrats send $100’s of billions of dollars and send guns to Ukraine to defend them from bad guys with guns.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 27, 2023
Why won’t Biden and the Democrats spend money and support legislation to defend our own innocent American school children with good guys with guns?
Greene then blamed hormones
After it was revealed that a trans person committed the Nashville shooting, Greene tweeted, “How much hormones like testosterone and medications for mental illness was the transgender Nashville school shooter taking? Everyone can stop blaming guns now.”
As someone pointed out, “By your logic, How many pre- and menopausal women are out there shooting s-it up? Zero. Because it’s the guns, not hormones.”
Research shows different outcomes
University at Albany and RAND conducted research in 2021. After evaluating school shootings between 2014 and 2018, they concluded, “School resource officers do effectively reduce some forms of violence in schools, but do not prevent school shootings or gun-related incidents.”
Hamline University and Metropolitan State University went through over 100 shootings. The conclusion was similar, “armed guards were not associated with a significant reduction in rates of injuries” during school mass shootings.”
More data support that more guns is not an answer
Dewey Cornell, a professor of education at the University of Virginia who studies school safety, claims, “We have prevented school shootings by identifying threats and working with troubled students before they make an attack.”
Cornell added, “I know of no scientific evidence that having armed law enforcement on campus by itself keeps kids safe at school.”
Most Americans recognize the issue
53% of Americans want stricter gun laws, according to the Center’s April 2021 survey. Smaller percentages say these laws are about right (32%) or should be less stringent (14%). Another survey suggested a higher number of people who want stricter gun laws – over 70%.
Four in 10 US adults claim they live in a household with a gun. While over 90% of Democrats want gun control, most Republicans see the 2nd amendment as their right to request more guns.
Greene’s argument makes no sense
Calling out the president for sharing guns with a country fighting for survival to demand more guns for the US schools makes no sense.
The US is not a war zone. Holding a gun does not mean a “mentally deranged shooter” won’t shoot at you.
Stricter gun control would allow fewer “mentally deranged” people to have access to guns.
Biden calls Nashville school shooting “sick” and renews call for an assault weapons ban
In contrast, President Biden called for more bans on weapons.
As a Reddit user wrote, that is highly unlikely, “Until it happens to a Republican lawmaker’s kid, nothing will change. Probably not even then.”
Comments on Twitter were similar, as one person shared, “Perjorie Traitor Greene cares way more about guns than she does children.”
Another person added, “There isn’t a single problem Republicans won’t try to convince you can be solved with a gun. Even guns.”
More people saw a horrible comparison, with one tweeting, “This dumb f..k wants to make our schools the equivalent of a literal war zone.”
There are over 400 million guns in the US
The US is the only country that has more civilian-owned firearms than people.
How does it compare to school shootings since no other country has such loose gun laws? Here is a report:
19 Countries with the Most School Shootings – total incidents between January 2009-May 2018:
United States — 288
Mexico — 8
South Africa — 6
Nigeria & Pakistan — 4
Afghanistan — 3
Brazil, Canada, France — 2
Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, & Turkey — 1
The number of guns started rising in 2020. And so did the number of mass shootings.
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