That spectacle is a testament and "museum" to the disingenuousness and duplicity of rabid anti-gunners.
This particular
pity-proxy-policy-presenter campaign using school busses is based in a misrepresentation and outright lie, (4368 "children" killed by guns) and it shows just how despicable and reprehensible anti-gunner tactics are.
The linked news story says:
"Gun violence is the leading cause of death for American children; . . . The bus fleet, which traveled to Cruz’s home and Houston office today, hopes to highlight the scale of loss, and the emphasis on how young and innocent their lives were."
If the 4368 is presented as the number of gun deaths of "young and innocent children" why not limit the dataset to
actual children?
That 4368 number is arrived at by adding in 18 & 19 y.o.
adults and that misrepresentation allows the dump of an additional
2,087 more deaths to get to their 4368 total,
a 91.495% bump in the real number of child gun deaths.
One child is too many which begs the question, why is the (multi-layered) lie necessary?
The deception is worse when the propaganda is associated with the massacre of "young and innocent" school-aged "children" with the visual of 52 school busses being used to push the deception.
18 and 19 y.o. adults are
not children and including the deaths of 18 and 19 y.o.
adults, should not be compared to, or included in, the deaths of what is presented as "young and innocent" kids that ride in school buses.
To
actually call them children, is a lie -- and given the gun death rate of 18 and 19 y.o.
adults is 24.75/100K for 2020 (7.9 times the rate for real "children"), means it is highly likely many of those 18 and 19 y.o.
adults, were criminal combatants killed during shootouts on a street, hardly "innocent".
This BS is just another example of the typical dishonest, duplicitous bullshit that anti-gunners can be counted on to spread.