Schools are safer than they were in the 90s, there is not a school shooting epidemic

[shortylickens]

Its just amazing we have a news channel that is opposed to any common sense Conservatives have have their own TV news, their own voting districts, their own Wiki because they are becoming irrelevant.

In order to deny reality and remain willfully ignorant in the 21st century its not enough to cut yourself off, you also need an alternate reality.

See Also: Alternative Facts.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I'm waiting for Faux and fiends to advocate a new school security program arming tots with nukes calling it something like sunshine in a backpack.

 

[momeNt]

Of course fox would say this.

Its just amazing we have a news channel that is opposed to any common sense Conservatives have have their own TV news, their own voting districts, their own Wiki because they are becoming irrelevant.

I'm waiting for Faux and fiends to advocate a new school security program arming tots with nukes calling it something like sunshine in a backpack.

The researcher is named Fox.... not the news channel............

 

[shortylickens]

This thread aged well!

Nashville police officers speak on mass shooting at The Covenant School

 

[Fenixgoon]

I'm so glad there's a non-zero acceptable number of school shootings /S

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm so glad there's a non-zero acceptable number of school shootings /S

The real question is if there's a maximum acceptable number. At this point I have to assume it's a signed integer value.

 

[shortylickens]

The real question is if there's a maximum acceptable number. At this point I have to assume it's a signed integer value.

I dont know what the number is, but I do know the victims dont matter.
Almost all the school shootings of the 21st century have been pretty little white children.
I mean, they're white and everything. So this problem is not as racist as the dems wanna believe. And apparently in the republican mind, fetuses are number 1, guns are number 2, corporations are number 3, white children outside the womb are number ?....

 

[nakedfrog]

I dont know what the number is, but I do know the victims dont matter.
Almost all the school shootings of the 21st century have been pretty little white children.
I mean, they're white and everything. So this problem is not as racist as the dems wanna believe. And apparently in the republican mind, fetuses are number 1, guns are number 2, corporations are number 3, white children outside the womb are number ?....

But are they rich?

 

[zinfamous]

Interesting research. Russian troll bots are pushing the gun control agenda and heavily sewing discord in an effort to divide and conquer this country, and we are playing into it.

We need to stand united under the 2A and tell Russia, that NO, we will not feed the trolls, OUR COUNTRY IS SAFE!

Let's beat this guys, let's stop the disinformation, and let us get back to the basics, get back to the bill of rights.

lol. what a fucking idiot assclown to think such an absurd thing like this.

 

[zinfamous]

Hey I have an idea. Reclassify gun deaths as abortions. The person being killed has just as much say about it in either scenario!

thing is though, no person has ever been aborted in the history of the universe. Never. It's actually biologically impossible to abort a person.

You know this, right?

 

[alien42]

The answer is obvious to anybody willing to look at it critically, it is lead poisoning.

are you sure the answer isn't abortion? Roe v Wade was passed in 1973, 18 to 20 years before the violent crime rate began to drop.

 

[woolfe9998]

There's school shootings. There's all mass shooting. There's all homicides involving a firearm. Then there are suicides, where most successful attempts involve a firearm. Suicides are a more common cause of death than homicides. Then there's accidental discharge deaths, many of which affect children.

All these things are affected by the availability of guns.

I know the school shootings are tragic and capture a lot of public attention, but don't allow anyone to narrow the issue by focusing on one small piece of it.

It's about 45,000 people per year in the US alone.

What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.

While the number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the second consecutive year in 2023, it remained among the highest annual totals on record.

www.pewresearch.org

That number is actually not terribly high compared to things like heart disease and cancer, but the other poster was correct that we fear things we cannot control, and also, the average age of death for gun related homicides, suicides and accidents is likely much lower than it is for cancer and heart disease. Young people are losing more years of their lives.