Indiana teachers shot

[darkswordsman17]

As punishment for such stupidity, the teachers should get to shoot all the officers in the balls or face. Hey, officers are shot in the line of duty, so they should know what its like! Fucking assholes.

Just curious, in your opinion, how many people on average need to die in mass school shootings before we should be worried about it?

Well you see, second hand smoke... (From guns, we should deal with that first, just think of all the kids killed from that!)

 

[Zorba]

Found it, good article explaining the risk and the anxiety that the public overreaction precipitates. We are turning our schools into these cold fortresses that promote this feeling of danger and doom and the reality is the response isn’t justified. Not proportionally.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/5938...n-perceived-danger-in-u-s-schools-and-reality

"Schools are safer today than they had been in previous decades," says James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University who has studied the phenomenon of mass murder since the 1980s.

Fox and doctoral student Emma Fridel crunched the numbers, and the results should come as a relief to parents.

First, while multiple-victim shootings in general are on the rise, that's not the case in schools. There's an average of about one a year — in a country with more than 100,000 schools

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Other experts agree. Garen Wintemute is an emergency room physician who leads a prominent gun violence research program at the University of California, Davis. He says school shootings, specifically, are not epidemic.

"Schools are just about the safest place in the world for kids to be," Wintemute says. "Although each one of them is horrific and rivets the entire nation for a period of time, mass shootings at schools are really very uncommon, and they are not increasing in frequency. What's changed is how aware we are of them."

I agree that mass shooting drills are stupid and likely do nothing but instill fear (and shows the potential shooter your plan).

But to put the stats a little more into perspective. An average kid will go to school about 14 years, so that raised the risk of being at a school with a shooting to be about 1 in 7100, not 1 in 100000.

Also Oklahoma has lost its edge about tornadoes and every school district in the OKC metro is adding full school storm shelters. 8 kids dying at a school from a tornado is all it took. I seriously doubt they'd have the same reaction if those 8 kids had been killed by a gun, though. My company also did a lot of mods to our buildings to put in a shelter area that could handle a ~EF4 and has put in full EF5 rated shelters in all new buildings.