{"id":1746147,"date":"2022-11-21T03:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1746147"},"modified":"2022-11-21T03:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:02:33","slug":"to-prevent-tragedies-like-the-uva-murders-focus-on-broken-families-not-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/to-prevent-tragedies-like-the-uva-murders-focus-on-broken-families-not-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"To Prevent Tragedies Like The UVA Murders, Focus On Broken Families Not Firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fto-prevent-tragedies-like-the-uva-murders-focus-on-broken-families-not-firearms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1746147&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New details about the recent murder of three University of Virginia (UVA) football players by one of their former teammates are further distressing \u2014 including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/16\/us\/university-of-virginia-shooting-wednesday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">witness statement<\/a> that suspect Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. shot one of the players while he was sleeping. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/uva-knew-gun-conviction-student-triple-murder-never-started-discipline-rcna57359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to reports<\/a>, UVA knew Jones had a gun conviction before the triple murder but never started a discipline process. My alma mater is reeling and canceled their last home game of the season. Yet the pundits of corporate media are laser-focused on one, predictable thing: gun control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur dysfunctional relationship with guns rears its ugly head in Virginia,\u201d was the title of The Washington Post\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/11\/15\/uva-shooting-gun-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nov. 15 editorial<\/a>. \u201cIt is important that the public not become inured to these tragedies. The nation has logged another gruesome episode in its dysfunctional relationship with guns,\u201d declared the WaPo\u2019s editorial board. The White House meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/fairness-justice\/assault-weapons-ban-in-wake-of-uva-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called for a ban on so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d<\/a> (though the weapon seems to have been a handgun, not a modern sporting rifle of the kind smeared by the left as an \u201cassault weapon\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Some pundits sought not only to grind their axes over gun control but to repudiate conservative attempts to curb the teaching of radical sexual ideology to children. \u201cAfter Deadly UVA Shooting, Republicans Are Really Worried About \u2026 the Pride Flag in Schools,\u201d was the title of a <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/feeds\/168326\/ticker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nov. 16 editorial<\/a> in The New Republic. \u201cWhile too many parents \u2014 and politicians pretending to care about parents \u2014 have been busy conjuring manufactured crises over school curriculum, their children have been in training,\u201d wrote Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2022\/11\/14\/uva-shooting-run-hide-fight-alert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nov. 14 editorial<\/a> that demanded more gun control. \u201cKindergartners have been cosplaying their own slaughter as their parents focused on trying to ban books that said \u2018gay.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet pundits are leaving out quite a few important parts of the story, ones that point to other, deeper crises in our American social fabric.<\/p>\n<p> Broken Family, Absent Father <\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2022\/11\/14\/christopher-darnell-jones-uva-gunman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">separate WaPo report<\/a>, accused shooter Jones spent his early years in Richmond public housing complexes, \u201cwhere it was often too dangerous to play outside.\u201d Jones was primarily raised by his mother, who was forced to work evenings. The boy was regularly responsible for feeding his three siblings, even walking to nearby grocery stores to buy ramen noodles or bologna.<\/p>\n<p>When Jones was 5, his parents divorced and his father departed the scene, a loss the former UVA football player called \u201cone of the most traumatic things that happened to me in my life.\u201d A close friend of Jones who was his teammate in middle and high school told the Washington Post: \u201cHe grew up in an unfortunate situation with his dad not being in his life too much and his mom not being the best off financially.\u201d As he entered middle school, Jones\u2019 relationship with his mother deteriorated, and by 2016 he was living with his grandmother in Petersburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>A broken family, an absent father, a strained relationship even with his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they argue for gun control, pundits leave out parts of the story that point to other deeper crises in our American social fabric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":1746150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}