For the first March in nearly 2 decades, there were no school shootings across the United States last month.
Keep scrolling to see why people don't see this as a thing to celebrate at all...
Let's begin by stating the obvious...
Though there is no legal definition for the phrase "mass shootings..."
And our country has been ravaged by horrific mass shootings for decades...
We even have a "Mass Shooting Tracker."
The website keeps track of our country's mass shootings.
It's time for our government to wake up.
And when schools are the targets of these mass shootings...
By September 2019, there had already been twenty-two school shootings during the year...
But mass school shootings still haunt us as a nation...
The memories of the thousands lost to school shootings are cherished...
A fashion brand was recently noticed recently for all the wrong reasons...
Bstroy, a "neo-native, post-apocalypse streetwear brand" from the U.S, depend strongly on their Instagram account to advertise their quirky and, let's face it, overpriced fashion.Their Spring 2020 collection dropped last year...
They began showcasing the menswear collection on Instagram and it was what everyone would expect from Bstroy - edgy, quirky, and just a little weird.But there were certain garments that ruffled the politically correct feathers of our nation...
Bstroy featured 3 different hoodies in the collection, and all the hoodies are designed to look like they have survived a school shooting. If you think that sounds problematic, then just wait until you see them...The first hoodie featured the Columbine logo.
Columbine High School of Colorado watched a mass shooting unfold back in April of 1999. Twelfth-grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered twelve students and one teacher before each of them committed suicide.Twenty-one more people were left severely injured...
The next hoodie featured was one displaying the Sandy Hook school logo.
On December 14th, 2012, twenty-year-old Adam Lanza went into Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut and shot and killed twenty-six people - including children aged between 6-7 years old. He had shot and killed his mother before driving to the school and committing these horrific murders.Sandy Hook remains to be the deadliest mass shooting at high school grade in America.
The final hoodie on display took on the logo of Stoneman Douglas.
The Stoneman Douglas high school shooting took place in February of 2018 in Florida, killing eighteen people and injuring seventeen more. Nikolas Cruz was a nineteen-year-old expelled student who opened fire on the school with a semi-automatic rifle.Why wasn't anything done in the past about Nikolas Cruz?
People instantly slammed Bstroy for the insensitive design...
People continue to live through this trauma...
But, amid the current global pandemic...
Last month reportedly marked the first March without a school shooting in the United States... since 2002.
And it came damn close in March 2002. One of a handful of close calls that month: https://t.co/9dWKQmUD6r— robertklemko (@robertklemko)1586791356.0
In follow-up tweets, Klemko pointed to stats from EverytownResearch.org...
@carisb4 @juless2k “According to Wikipedia” https://t.co/2Oe3VvWYln— robertklemko (@robertklemko)1586799536.0
In a country where these incidents are all too frequent...
However...
@RobertKlemko @SarahSpain It only took a global pandemic to close all schools for that to happen...— Rob McGahen (@Rob McGahen)1586791198.0
In fact, according to reports, gun sales increased significantly during the last month.
Many raised the same point.
@RobertKlemko @Dorianlynskey Now I wish there was a less drastic way of achieving this other than closing all the s… https://t.co/Vq6kee3eJk— Maria (@Maria)1586792425.0
Looks like several people think this is far from something to be celebrating.
@RobertKlemko Congrats everyone! We defeated school shootings and all it took was closing every school in America.— Bentalope (@Bentalope)1586795737.0