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> Why does a standard highway patrolman or cop doing routine speed traps need a gun? Because this is statistically the form of policing most likely to get cops

> Why does a standard highway patrolman or cop doing routine speed traps need a gun? Because this is statistically the form of policing most likely to get cops shot. > Why does every cop in a school need a gun? A symptom of America's school shooting problem. When your child is being gunned down you'll probably wish the police there were armed.

zepto 6y ago
School shootings where children are being gunned down are vanishingly rare.
- zaroth 6y ago
  In 2019, eight people were killed and 43 were injured in 25 school shooting incidents. 2018 was much worse with 37 kids killed in school shootings. This is roughly the same as the number of unarmed black people shot and killed by police in the line of duty (at least this number has been trending downward for several years).
  - zepto 6y ago
    Do you have a source for the this? Reporting of school shootings is notoriously unreliable: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-sch...
    - zaroth 6y ago
      I agree, there's no standard definition. I grabbed the 8 / 43 number for 2019 here [1]. I see they have similar numebers as what I found for 2018 as well [2]. The 2018 numbers I was referencing was from this 10 year overview [3]. [1] - https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shootings-of-2019-behind-the-numbers.html https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shooting... [2] - https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shootings-2018-how-many-where.html https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shooting... [3] - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/07/us/ten-years-of-school-shootings-trnd/ https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/07/us/ten-years-of-scho...
joshuamorton 6y ago
Perhaps, but school resource officers have a poor track record of addressing school shootings.

zepto 6y ago

School shootings where children are being gunned down are vanishingly rare.

zaroth 6y ago
In 2019, eight people were killed and 43 were injured in 25 school shooting incidents. 2018 was much worse with 37 kids killed in school shootings. This is roughly the same as the number of unarmed black people shot and killed by police in the line of duty (at least this number has been trending downward for several years).
- zepto 6y ago
  Do you have a source for the this? Reporting of school shootings is notoriously unreliable: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-sch...
  - zaroth 6y ago
    I agree, there's no standard definition. I grabbed the 8 / 43 number for 2019 here [1]. I see they have similar numebers as what I found for 2018 as well [2]. The 2018 numbers I was referencing was from this 10 year overview [3]. [1] - https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shootings-of-2019-behind-the-numbers.html https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shooting... [2] - https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shootings-2018-how-many-where.html https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shooting... [3] - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/07/us/ten-years-of-school-shootings-trnd/ https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/07/us/ten-years-of-scho...

joshuamorton 6y ago

Perhaps, but school resource officers have a poor track record of addressing school shootings.