{"id":12901,"date":"2022-06-08T19:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/aoc-says-it-s-internationally-embarrassing-the-us-had-288-school-shootings-while-other-g7-countries-saw-just-5-in-the-same-10-year-period"},"modified":"2022-06-08T19:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:46:35","slug":"aoc-says-it-s-internationally-embarrassing-the-us-had-288-school-shootings-while-other-g7-countries-saw-just-5-in-the-same-10-year-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/aoc-says-it-s-internationally-embarrassing-the-us-had-288-school-shootings-while-other-g7-countries-saw-just-5-in-the-same-10-year-period","title":{"rendered":"AOC says it&#8217;s &#8216;internationally embarrassing&#8217; the US had 288 school shootings while other G7 countries saw just 5 in the same 10-year period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on June 8, 2022 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images AOC said on Wednesday the rate of school shootings in the US was an international embarrassment. The US had 288 school shootings from 2009 to 2018. Other G7 countries saw just 5 in the same period. Democrats are pushing for new gun legislation after a shooting at a Texas school that killed 21. Democratic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has the highest rate of gun deaths among high-income countries, and the highest rate of civilian firearm ownership in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[79,8],"class_list":["post-12901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety","tag-congress","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}