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USA: School unions call for prevention after gun tragedy
School unions in the US have called for action to prevent further gun deaths, after 17 people were killed and another 16 injured in a 13 February attack by an excluded former pupil. Nikolas Cruz, 19, opened fire with an AR-15 rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Randi Weingarten, president of the teaching union AFT, said that with 18 school shootings this year in the US, one had to wonder "when is enough enough?" She added: "We will do everything we can to support our educators, children, parents and local in the days, weeks and even years to come. [And we] will continue to fight to prevent gun violence from becoming the new normal in our schools."
Lily Eskelsen García, president of the education union NEA, called on the US government to act against violence in schools. "We all have a responsibility to create safe schools and communities. As a state and a country, we can and must do more to ensure that everyone who walks through our school doors - educator, student, parent or community member - is safe and free from violence," she said.
Fred van Leeuwen, general secretary of the global union Education International, said: "This is one further incident in a horrifying sequence of shootings in US schools which have cut short far too many young lives in tragic circumstances. Education International calls for better control of access to guns in the USA and for improved security on school premises." The victims from Parkland, Florida join about 650 other people who die each week in the US from gun violence.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would examine the "intersection of mental health and criminality and identify how we can stop people capable of such heinous crimes." However, this approach has been questioned by public health specialists, who say President Trump's top legal adviser is ignoring the positive impact of stricter gun laws. Public health blog The Pump Handle notes "psychiatrists, psychologists, and criminologists have examined mental illness and violence. There's broad consensus that the vast majority of violent acts are committed by individuals who have no history of mental illness… Misappropriating gun violence to individuals with mental illness is a topic that's been addressed by numerous researchers. Persons with mental illness are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it."
Read more: EI news release. AFT news release. NEA news release. The Pump Handle. Statement by President Donald Trump. Statement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Source: Risks 838
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