Casey Stoney says England is safer for her three children; she wants similar gun legislation in the United States.
and two teachers by a gunman in Texas and has concerns about her own three children living in the United States due to its high rate of gun violence.England has some of the toughest restrictions on gun ownership in the world. Gun deaths account for 4 percent of the country’s homicides. In comparison, gun deaths account for 79 percent of the homicides in the United States,“I’ve got twins that are 7, and I’ve got a little one who is 4,” said Stoney, “and they can go to school safely .
On behalf of the first-year women’s soccer club, Stoney began her weekly news conference by saying soccer is “really insignificant” this week.“Our thoughts, prayers, love go out to all of those tragically affected in Uvalde,” she said. The 40-year-old coach, who moved to the U.S. last year, wants England-style gun control for her new home country, implying it would prevent massacres like Tuesday’s in Texas.
“It has to end,” she said. “And it doesn’t end until people in power make a decision that’s right. Now, how many people are going to die? How many mass shootings are gonna happen? How many lives are going to be lost until a decision’s made? The answer is not more guns. It’s not policing schools. It’s no guns. We don’t have guns in England. It’s not something we even have to think about.”
A gunman’s killing of six people, including a 3-year-old child, in Plymouth, last August, was England’s worst mass shooting in more than a decade,Despite widespread and vocal public outrage — often in the wake of gun violence — American support for stricter gun laws in 2020 fell to the lowest level since 2014,The Wave resume play Sunday in Seattle, at noon, against OL Reign .
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