I’m not sure if that was meant to be some kind of ‘cold comfort’ or what.
Even ONE child getting shot per year isn’t “acceptable…” especially if it’s your kid that just happens to be that ‘one.’
O_O
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Not really. See, there’s other countries in the world, and they practically never ever have school shootings. Ever. But in the US you can reliably expect one a month. That means there’s something very seriously wrong in the US.
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19 so far for 2018 or 1 shooting every 2.7days.
Hope those students recieve the proper P.T.S.D. counselling they may require.
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I remember hearing that shit around noon or so on Sept. 11, 2001.
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It’s an interesting point. Is the prevalence of school shootings evidence of a greater malaise? I don’t know, but I doubt it is evidence of absence of such.
I’m not trying to comfort anyone on this message board. I’m just pointing out that children should not be terrified of being shot at school. There seems to be evidence that they are, in fact terrified, and are not cognizant of the very, very, very low likelihood of this actually happening to them.
I’m not outright buying the “even one child…” notion. What do you mean by “acceptable”? Consider that the much larger number of children killed on our roads is presumably “acceptable” as there are very many almost-certainly-effective things we could do to drastically reduce those. A much greater guaranteed benefit than anything being proposed around reducing school shootings.
To focus effort on relatively ineffective and unproven controls to perhaps save children’s’ lives when this removes resources from far more effective measures that are almost guaranteed to save more lives is surely not the best path forward. Example: one simple thing would save far more lives than anything could do with respect to school shootings is to increase the minimum driving age by 2 years.
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After the Port Arthur massacre, Australia implemented an unpopular mandatory firearms buyback, and then reworked the law so that if you want to own a firearm you need proper licensing, and have to keep it at a gun range/armory.
Since then the number of mass shootings in Australia, to this date, have been zero.
Ineffective and unproven my ass.
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Oh, sorry. I was referring to arming teachers and so forth. Gun control has so many benefits, it is a no-brainer and would almost certainly lead to a reduction in gun fatalities. That absolutely has my support. Apologies that I wasn’t clear. I was actually living in Australia during the Port Arthur massacre and consequent events.
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Sorry, I’m so used to people telling me that regulating access to guns would never in a million years work that I like to drag out the dead horse I keep beating.
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I would hypothesize “Do you find 'If you see something, say something’ to be effective?”
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I keep thinking that someone needs to make a “modest proposal” to turn prisons into schools, but that may be exactly what they’re hoping for…
That almost makes sense in comparison, though. I mean, if they were allowed to have guns, and the hijackers only had box-cutters, they might have stopped them. Sure, they very well might have brought the plane down themselves as well, but details… (Edit: As opposed to having a gun on a campus where there’s a shooting - you find out there’s a shooting going on when you hear the shots, and usually by the time you get there, it’s already over. Although foreknowledge that the 9-11 hijacking weren’t going to be the expected sort would have been its own form of magical knowledge, which by itself could have stopped them.)
Arming teachers isn’t “ineffective and unproven,” though - it’s fucking crazy.
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Well yes, but the point seems lost on many.
Many here, on this forum?
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Yes, that is true. I should have been more forceful.
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Perhaps not. But here is where I get in some good practice. (There was hint of “won’t somebody please think of the children” earlier on, though.)
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Do you get the “yes but other violent crime skyrocketed” pushback?
FWIW the writer of that note almost certainly is Communications Director Hope Hicks.
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