Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@pieist You sure it's not something else on your end? I've used Thunderbird for a decade now and never had any of those problems. I use it now to manage dozens of accounts and it can check all of them in seconds.

@MattFerrel @Haste Right, and, as I understand it, there's little-to-no evidence of the effectiveness of active-shooter drills to actually prepare kids rather than just filling them with a never-ending sense of impending dread. That goes to my point above about panic expressed by authority figures.

Glad to hear police stopped that kid you mentioned in time. I hope whoever he got the gun from (most likely a parent) is arrested as well.

@otownKim It came out in 2019, so I think it was more of a reflection than a prediction of reality.

@GayDeceiver None of the above? For whatever reason, I always pronounced it "See-kull", without the "w" sound in "sequel".

@jann Which is an injustice in and of itself.

@Haste Those are totally valid concerns. Fwiw, my intent was not to trivialize the tragedies themselves, but rather to take issue with the breathless media coverage that creates a sense of dread that might otherwise not be so pervasive.

Although, I did feel somewhat compelled to run the numbers and the percentage of Japan's 1945 population killed by atomic bombs (0.3%) was 3000x the percentage of K-12 kids who died in school shootings out of the total US student enrollment in 2022 (0.0001%).

@Haste Right, and while we can agree that's abhorrent, it's important to put it into context. There are, by one count at least, about 120,000 schools serving k-12 students in the United States. So, 23 would mean that 0.02% of schools experienced a shooting in the past year.

Now, obviously, any school shootings are too many school shootings, but it's worth understanding that the vast, vast majority of students' exposure to school shootings comes indirectly through the panic expressed by media and authority figures, not from the shootings themselves.