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You're _honestly_ saying that fears over school shootings in the US are overblown because it makes for good news?
by allover 7y ago
You're _honestly_ saying that fears over school shootings in the US are overblown because it makes for good news?
- rayiner 7y agoYes.
- dahfizz 7y agoSchool shootings average 4 deaths per year. They are very tragic and very sad, but you should fear them about as much as you fear cows. In fact, cows kill a lot more people than school shootings do. All this fearmongering over such a rare occurrence is actively causing harm: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/11/lockdown-drills-an-american-quirk-out-control/?arc404=true https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/11/lockdown-...
- cheez 7y agoThe only presidential candidate to speak truth about this... Andrew Yang.
- allover 7y agoHe said the drills are misguided though right? Not that the US obsession with guns and lax gun control that enables school shootings is defensible.
- rayiner 7y agoAmericans have guns because we believe that individual citizens may, god forbid, need to kill people. Many Europeans, by contrast, believe that they are past that, at a point in history where only the State needs the power to kill. Who knows who is right. But it’s ridiculously arrogant to say that the American position is not defensible. It was literally just a couple of generations ago when the US was air dropping rifles into France to support the Resistance. Even if we have now entered an age where ordinary people don’t need guns—that new age is younger than computers, supersonic flight, or television. Its far too soon to conclude that’s this is how the world will always be from here forward.
- allover 7y agoI think you're missing that Europeans also recognise that giving every dumbass, desperate person or dormant psychopath a gun, is far more likely to get people killed NOW, than the chances that when the 'end-times' you imply come, all these same people are going to someone effectively unite and overthrow the regime. It's a crackpot idea to think that 'arming citizens' helps the whole. And the fact you think it's 'arrogant' to spell out a basic truth that the rest of the world understands is dumbfounding.
- cheez 7y agoYes, that the drills are misguided. And he is fine with the obsession with guns, suggested using palm/grip recognition to tie guns to owners with free updates paid for by govt. Reasonable.
- allover 7y agoMore reasonable than the anti gun control people, but it's still an insane solution to the problem, in the grand scheme of things.
- allover 7y agoDeaths of children. At school. For literally nothing. They are _avoidable_, that's why they are not overstated.
- rayiner 7y agoHow are they avoidable?
- dahfizz 7y agoEvery death is a tragedy. Many are avoidable. If we want to actually reduce tragedy and suffering, your time and energy is best spent on big problems. A school age child is nearly 200x more likely to die by suicide than from a school shooting. That's a tragedy. And that's _avoidable_. Which do you hear about more? The attention and resources of society are limited. We would be better off allocating resources to bigger problems, but we don't. That's a tragedy.
- allover 7y agoUm, why not both. The rest of the world doesn't have the school shooter problem. It's fixable, and the fix is bleedingly obvious. There's no excuse.