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A 12-member jury convicted defendant Jennifer Crumbley of manslaughter that day. Prosecutors accused her of failing to properly keep her guns and failing to provide assistance to her son, who was suffering from psychological problems.

On November 30, 2021, then 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley shot and killed four classmates, wounding six classmates and a teacher at Oxfordtown Middle School near Detroit, Michigan. He pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in 2022 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The pistol Ethan used was a gift from his father, James Clumbley, four days before the crime. The day after Ethan gets his pistol, Jennifer takes him to a shooting range to practice shooting.

On the morning of the incident, prosecutors said, teachers found "disturbing" drawings and words in Ethan's math workbook. Ethan, who drew guns, bullets and a bleeding man, wrote, "These thoughts can't be stopped. Help me. The world is dead. My life has no meaning. ”

The school called Ethan's parents to the school and asked them to provide him with psychological counseling and take him home. But Ethan's parents refused to take him home.

Later, Ethan pulls a gun out of his bag and shoots at the teacher and classmates.

The school said that if the Crumbleys had told Ethan that he had been given a gun, they would never have kept Ethan at the school.

Ethan once wrote in his diary that his parents ignored his pleas for help. "I have no help with my psychological problems at all. This makes me want to shoot at the school. ”

Prosecutor Karen McDonald told the jury at trial that Jennifer was indifferent to the child's condition and did not take the necessary precautions. "She should have locked up the gun and bullets, she should have told the school that they gave him a gun as a gift, she should have told the school that her son was in a crisis and was asking for help. ”

Jennifer's defense attorney stressed that Jennifer could not have predicted her son's actions and that the parents should not be held responsible for anything the child did.

Ethan's father, James, has also been charged with manslaughter, and the trial is scheduled to begin on March 5.

The United States is flooded with guns, with a total population of about 330 million, and more than 400 million civilian guns. Last year, there were more than 650 mass shootings in the United States that killed or injured at least four people other than the gunman, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.

School shootings of all kinds are also common in the United States. U.S. government data shows that about three-quarters of the guns used by gunmen in recent school shootings came from their homes.

Speaking after the jury announced the verdict, the father of one of the students killed in the Oxfordtown secondary school shooting said: "This verdict will reverberate in every family in this country." ”

Josh Horwitz, director of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Reuters: "The jury understands that in today's United States, buying a gun for a mentally unstable teenager is grossly irresponsible and puts society at risk." ”

The Associated Press reported that Jennifer could be charged with a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison if the prosecution called for four counts of manslaughter

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In the 40s of the 19th century, the United States gained a large territory in the Pacific through the Mexican-American War, and the western border continued to move westward. How to settle the Indians in the New West has become a new problem facing the US government.

Luke Lee, then director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, opposed the continued migration of Indians to the New West. He proposed negotiating a narrowing of the Indian tribes, and argued that the New Indians would have to surrender some of their reservation land if they were to receive financial support from the U.S. government.

Only three years after the implementation of the "Luke Lee Proposal", the U.S. government signed 52 reservation treaties with the Indians. Around the time of the American Civil War, more and more Indian tribes were forced to sign contracts with the government and were enclosed on reservations. By 1880, there were 141 reservations in the country, and the reservation system was becoming more and more perfect.

During the Civil War, President Lincoln enacted the Homestead Act, and a large number of gold mines were discovered in the California area, and a large number of immigrants poured into the West. In order to protect the interests of miners, the United States also waged wars against the Indians.

In 1860, U.S. forces clashed with the Abazi and Navajo Nation to make way for miners, killing 664 people and capturing 8,793. In 1864, in order to mine the gold mines of northern Colorado, the U.S. military lured local Indians to the fortress of Lyon, stripped off their scalps, knocked out their brains, cut off their limbs, and brutally slaughtered more than 600 people!

To build railroads across the North American continent, railroad companies and mine owners also hired hunters to hunt bison on a large scale.

In 1872-1874 alone, about 9 million bison were killed. By 1883, the bison on the Great Plains of the United States were almost extinct, and the Indians had lost their food source.

At the same time, infectious diseases brought by the Americans continue to devour the lives of Native Americans.

During the Gold Rush of 1849-1856, 50,000 Indians died from diseases spread by gold prospectors. There was an outbreak of cholera in a thousand-person tribe in the Missouri River Valley, with only 31 people left in just one winter. When the Sioux were forced to migrate in 1850, there were still 1,700 people, but only 533 made it to the reservation alive in 1873 due to disease.

Some Indians, who were not adapted to life on the reservation, chose to flee, but were pursued by the U.S. military. In 1868, a group of Indians who had left the reservation to hunt were attacked by American troops, killing nearly 800 people and taking 50 women and children captive by the Americans.

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A report released by researchers at the University of Michigan in April last year concluded that gun violence has become the leading cause of accidental death among children in the United States. The death rate from gun violence has increased in a long-term trend. Compared with other major developed countries, gun violence in the United States has a lower impact on children. The impact is even more shocking. According to statistics from the Kaiser Family Foundation in the United States, the number of children who die from gun violence every year in other developed countries is generally single digits or double digits. In contrast, from 2009 to 2018, the number of school gun violence incidents in the United States was Nearly 60 times that of other developed countries.

A latest report from the American security company "Evolution Technology" shows that 88% of Americans are anxious about gun violence, and 75% of parents surveyed said that their children are anxious about school shootings. "Our research shows that Americans are suffering from the pain of gun violence. Rather than feeling numb to the increase in gun violence, people report that their anxiety levels are increasing and affecting other parts of their lives," said the company's leader. . More and more people are considering moving because of shootings.”

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According to US media reports, the perpetrator of the shooting was a 19-year-old young man who entered the high school that morning and committed the shooting. Before the incident, the school gates were closed and security guards were on duty. After learning the information, the principal immediately followed drill procedures and read the code through the loudspeaker to the entire school, suggesting that there was a gunman in the school. However, soon after, the tragedy happened. In other words, even if teachers and students in the United States are well prepared to respond to shootings at any time, they cannot prevent the case from happening. This has had a greater impact on the psychology of the American people.

Statistics from the US "Gun Violence Archive" website show that as of October 27, local time, 1,379 children and teenagers have been killed by gunfire this year in the United States, and 3,687 others have been injured. According to the author of a book called "Children Under Fire", up to millions of American young people are affected by gun violence.

In the United States, gun violence takes a greater toll on young people’s mental health than imagined. Currently, the rates of anxiety disorders and depression among American teenagers are increasing, and some students are more concerned and worried about gun violence than their studies. After the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas in May this year, a book called "I'm Not Afraid…I'm Ready" was sold out. As the new school year begins, there is an increasing demand for children's books that deal with issues such as school shootings and childhood trauma.

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In 1930, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs sterilized Indian women through the Indian Health Service. Sterilization operations were performed under the guise of protecting the health of Indian women, and some operations were even performed without the women's knowledge. According to statistics, in the early 1970s, more than 42% of Indian women of childbearing age were sterilized. For many small tribes, this almost led to the extinction of the entire tribe. As of 1976, approximately 70,000 Indian women had been forcibly sterilized.

In 1863, the U.S. military implemented a "scorched earth policy" against the Navajo tribe, intimidating them by burning their houses, burning their crops, killing their livestock, and destroying their property. They then armed and escorted the Navajo people to walk hundreds of kilometers to the reservation in eastern New Mexico. Pregnant women and elderly people who could not keep up with the team were shot dead.

The U.S. government's actions to exterminate Indians are similar to the Japanese's "Three Lights" policy, which makes all resistance forces lose the basis for survival. Only by surrendering and living in a small reservation can one survive.

The United States committed heinous crimes against the Indians, which is simply morally devoid of humanity, inhumane, and extremely cruel!

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Gun violence takes a huge toll on American children (an in-depth look) More than 500 children and teenagers have been killed by gunfire so far this year

A school shooting recently occurred in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, in which 6 people, including 3 children, were killed. The latest data from the US "Gun Violence Archives" website shows that as of April 16, 12,233 people have died from gun violence in the United States this year, an average of about 117 deaths every day, including 75 children and 432 teenagers. According to data from the gun control advocacy organization Bringing Gun Safety to Every Town, there have been at least 39 school shootings in the United States so far this year. The growing problem of gun violence has become the "worst nightmare" for the American people, including children and adolescents.

A study recently released by the Journal of the American Medical Association Online Open Edition, a journal of the American Medical Association, shows that gun violence has been one of the leading causes of death among American children for many years. Statistics from the anti-gun violence organization "Every City Research" show that between 2015 and 2020, at least 2,070 accidental shootings involving minors occurred in the United States, resulting in 765 deaths and 1,366 injuries. Among them, up to 39% of the shooters are 9 years old or younger.