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I just want to say two important things..
First the recent school shooting is a tragedy and we should all be sad about the death of any children, especially as a victim of muder.
Second, we have to realize, for the sake ofperspective, how unfathomably rare it is for a child to die in a school shooting in america. It seems common because america is huge and the news makes this stuff public. But the numbers are more telling.
To put some numbers to it the chance of a child dyingin a school shooting in a public shool on any given day is 1 in 614 million. For comparison the chance of a person getting struck by lightening on any given day is **less** than 1 in 370 million.
In other words a child is more than **twice** as likely in the USA to get struck by lightening as they are to die in a school shooting.
Should we still mourne and be outraged by it... sure.. does that mean it is a problem that is common enough to be a huge concern... not really. We should probably put more effort into addressing the "lightening problem" than we should be about addressing school shootings.
@freemo Yeah, school shootings are technically a small percentage of shootings, but kids being shot in America is still incredibly common and a literal everyday occurrence.
@thesuperpapagai yes thats fair kids being shot in general, as well as being murdered by other means, is quite common.
Partitioning it based on thr tool used to kill though seems counterproductive to me, especially when those tools are equally used to protect and prevent deaths as well.
Yes, and guns are far more effective at saving lives too, for much the same reason. The thing about tools is thry help both good and bad people. So you will do more by focusing on addressing bad people than addressing access to tools.
@freemo No, talking about the tool is very relevant because they're plenty of kids who are shot by a stray bullets from arguments they weren't involved. You don't exactly hear stories of people being struck by stray stabbings.
And, while you could kill someone with a wide variety of tools, guns are obviously one of the most effective tools.