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> To be clear on what that means: In a country of 350-400 million people, these are rare enough that each one can afford to be a media feeding frenzy. > And th
by ModernMech 5y ago
> To be clear on what that means: In a country of 350-400 million people, these are rare enough that each one can afford to be a media feeding frenzy.
> And they still happen only rarely. Months & years between them.
The latest school shooting in the US was fewer than 30 days ago: 1 dead, 2 injured. It hardly made the news. There was another 3 days before that. In February there were 3 shootings. In January, 7 shootings. That's just this year. Hardly any of the shootings on this list even made national news, let alone were media feeding frenzies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...