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I'm not sure I follow. are you suggesting that by saying there's a connection between bullying and school shootings, that increases the risk of school shootings

• barry-cotter 4y ago
  Yes. Just as talking about suicide or anorexia or multiple personality disorder leads to explosions in its prevalence so with school and other mass shootings.
• LeonB 4y ago
  No, as “A connection between bullying and school shootings” is not what the grand-parent comment “suggests” - and omits the purpose and the style in which they made their proposal. The GP comment suggests that: 1. As an effective deterrent to bullying We explain 2. To students That 3. “if they bully someone, they're increasing the likelihood of that person one day bringing a pump gun to school and murdering them” And they seem to have overlooked quite a few concepts in putting forward this proposal. For example — The alleged perpetrators of any such pump shotgun massacre would be amongst the audience of people receiving this message. And The audience are students, not professors of logic or Bayesian mathematicians or any other category of audience. And more. Good night.