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I am curious about inflating school shooting numbers. Do you have links for that? Are you saying that there were fake deaths and there are crisis paid actors?

gwbas1c 8y ago
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/593831564/the-disconnect-between-perceived-danger-in-u-s-schools-and-reality https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/593831564/the-disconnect-betw... That's NPR! Seriously, gun control reform is very important. We just need the activists on both sides to start acting like reasonable adults. (Begin rant) On the right, there's the "good guy with the gun" myth; and the belief that responsible homeowners need to have a gun "for safety." Both are absurd. On the left, there's this belief that bad guns can be banned, and good guns allowed. That's also absurd, because all guns are designed to kill! A hunter sitting in a tree waiting for a deer uses the same equipment as a man looking through a window waiting for his victim. That's what I mean by acting like adults. The right and left are so unrealistic that they're going to get nowhere with real reform.
- actsasbuffoon 8y ago
  I'm not aware of a widespread belief that school shootings are more common now than they were in the 90s. That said, just because the rate isn't increasing, is that a compelling argument for not addressing school shootings? If your house burned down once this year, but it burned down 3 times in 1998, I think you're still having too many house fires. How is that an argument that there's no need to buy a smoke alarm, and maybe re-examine your lifestyle to understand why you're experiencing such an unusually high number of fires?
- adamzochowski 8y ago
  I read the article, where does it say about lying and faking school shooting numbers? Crisis actors? Fake deaths? Because that is the lie we started from. The article talks about perception. That people now are more worried about school shootings than they used to be, despite past being 4 times worse off. I agree with you that there are perception / reality issues on both sides. For example: most gun perpetrators and most deaths are from gun suicides. But the discussion here is about explicit lies. That there was no school shooting. That the people on tv are trained actors.

gwbas1c 8y ago

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/593831564/the-disconnect-between-perceived-danger-in-u-s-schools-and-reality https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/593831564/the-disconnect-betw... That's NPR! Seriously, gun control reform is very important. We just need the activists on both sides to start acting like reasonable adults. (Begin rant) On the right, there's the "good guy with the gun" myth; and the belief that responsible homeowners need to have a gun "for safety." Both are absurd. On the left, there's this belief that bad guns can be banned, and good guns allowed. That's also absurd, because all guns are designed to kill! A hunter sitting in a tree waiting for a deer uses the same equipment as a man looking through a window waiting for his victim. That's what I mean by acting like adults. The right and left are so unrealistic that they're going to get nowhere with real reform.

actsasbuffoon 8y ago
I'm not aware of a widespread belief that school shootings are more common now than they were in the 90s. That said, just because the rate isn't increasing, is that a compelling argument for not addressing school shootings? If your house burned down once this year, but it burned down 3 times in 1998, I think you're still having too many house fires. How is that an argument that there's no need to buy a smoke alarm, and maybe re-examine your lifestyle to understand why you're experiencing such an unusually high number of fires?
adamzochowski 8y ago
I read the article, where does it say about lying and faking school shooting numbers? Crisis actors? Fake deaths? Because that is the lie we started from. The article talks about perception. That people now are more worried about school shootings than they used to be, despite past being 4 times worse off. I agree with you that there are perception / reality issues on both sides. For example: most gun perpetrators and most deaths are from gun suicides. But the discussion here is about explicit lies. That there was no school shooting. That the people on tv are trained actors.