It’s a common axiom that numbers don’t lie. If that’s the case, then the following statistics tell a startling truth.

According to gunpolicy.org, the United States averages approximately 39,682 gun deaths per year, more than double the next six wealthiest nations combined. Also, Americans make up about 4.4 percent of the world’s population but own 42 percent of the world’s guns. The sickening tragedies that took place in Buffalo and Laguna Woods, California last week were troubling enough to experience, and on Tuesday, they were joined by even more senseless gun violence in Uvalde, Texas, where at least 19 children and two others killed at Robb Elementary School by 18-year-old murderer Salvador Ramos, who reportedly shot and killed his grandmother prior to the massacre at the school. While the nation was grieving over the horrific news, in Woodbridge there was a shooting near Gatehouse Terrace in which a stray bullet shot an 8-year-old girl while playing with friends outside. As of press time, she was still in critical condition.

Before the game between the Dallas Mavericks and Golden State Warriors, head coach Steve Kerr, who lost his own father to gun violence, did not hold back his emotions as he addressed the media.

In response to the right-winged rhetoric for people to keep their gun rights and saying that this problem would’ve been solved if they had more teachers with guns, human rights lawyer Qasim Rashid offered the following tweet:

There is one question we need to ask here in Prince William County: are our 95 public schools protected enough to prevent the same type of massacre from happening? There are 92,237 students in PWC’s public schools, according to U.S. News & World Report. Are there enough armed officers in these schools to ensure that parents will see their children once they’re out of their sight? Arming teachers is not the move, but putting experienced guards could eliminate the potential for another school having the same fate as Columbine, Sandy Hook, and now Uvalde. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. There must be real legislative change.

Our children, teachers and staff already have enough challenges to deal with when it comes to an educational system designed to keep them under the thumb of the elites. Having to worry about fighting for their lives shouldn’t be one of them.