Dan Le Batard Reads Alarming Gun Violence Stats After Chiefs Parade Shooting: ‘How Is America Worse at This Than Everyone Else?’

In the wake of Wednesday’s shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, Dan Le Batard began his show on Thursday by reading off some alarming statistics about gun violence in America.

The shooting occurred shortly after the conclusion of parade festivities Wednesday afternoon. Police arrested three people.

One person was killed in the shooting, twenty-one more were injured, and nine children were treated for gunshot wounds.

In an unfortunate twist of fate, the shooting occurred on the six-year anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 14 students and three school staff members.

“So, it’s been like 2,000 days,” La Batard said on The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, “and since then, according to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 3,370 mass shootings in America. That’s one-and-a-half a day since Parkland. The past six years since Parkland, guns in America have either killed or injured, 5,355 children — children! — ages 11 and under. Also, 25,000 between the ages of 12 and 17. That’s 5,100 kids a year.

“How is America worse at this than everyone else? Forty-ninth mass shooting this year, [Jon ‘Stugotz’ Weiner], was yesterday.”

Le Batard and Stugotz continued a lengthy discussion about ways to combat the issue. Then, Le Batard brought on Manuel Oliver, the father of one of the students killed in Parkland.

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