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“Regularly” is not a particularly accurate word. 50 million K12 students in the U.S. — how many mass murders are “regular?”

pjc50 2y ago
Any at all? I don't think Americans realize how much of a US-only problem it is, and how some of the non-US mass shootings are explicitly inspired by US media and discourse.
sqeaky 2y ago
More than once a week not quite once a day. Rather than trying to diminish something that's completely preventable and abhorrent maybe we could discuss ways to actually prevent it. Because this isn't a problem anywhere else so clearly it's preventable. If AI can be part of a solution here this is a reasonable place to discuss it.
- bigstrat2003 2y ago
  Nobody said we shouldn't try to solve the problem. But the first step is accurately describing the problem to be solved. Something that occurs once a year across the entire country has very different solutions than something which occurs once a week in every county.
  - immibis 2y ago
    More than once a week is regularly. Doesn't matter how wide the geographical area is - ANY school in the USA might be next, so they ALL have to take precautions.
  - hnlmorg 2y ago
    The problem is already well defined as regular school shootings. I don’t think redescribing the problem helps anyone apart from the NRA.
    - sqeaky 2y ago
      Yeah, sadly we already know the solution, ban or heavily restrict guns. Every place with more guns has more shootings. It is so simple it seems almost tautological. Yet somehow this very simple fact is controversial.
closewith 2y ago
I wonder if you realise how much of a dystopian nightmare you have to be living in to write a comment like this and consider it reasonable.
croo 2y ago
I had the same line of thought as I am not following the topic and media hype can make an elephant out of a mouse. But based on this 2022 statistics USA really has a thing going on with school shootings... more than a hundred per year is way too much. I would definitely consider it "regularly" even if it seems a low number statistically (50 million students === 1 shooter / 500000 student ~?~ 1 shooting / 1000 school). https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/19982.jpeg https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/19982.jpeg

pjc50 2y ago

Any at all? I don't think Americans realize how much of a US-only problem it is, and how some of the non-US mass shootings are explicitly inspired by US media and discourse.

sqeaky 2y ago

More than once a week not quite once a day. Rather than trying to diminish something that's completely preventable and abhorrent maybe we could discuss ways to actually prevent it. Because this isn't a problem anywhere else so clearly it's preventable. If AI can be part of a solution here this is a reasonable place to discuss it.

bigstrat2003 2y ago
Nobody said we shouldn't try to solve the problem. But the first step is accurately describing the problem to be solved. Something that occurs once a year across the entire country has very different solutions than something which occurs once a week in every county.
- immibis 2y ago
  More than once a week is regularly. Doesn't matter how wide the geographical area is - ANY school in the USA might be next, so they ALL have to take precautions.
- hnlmorg 2y ago
  The problem is already well defined as regular school shootings. I don’t think redescribing the problem helps anyone apart from the NRA.
  - sqeaky 2y ago
    Yeah, sadly we already know the solution, ban or heavily restrict guns. Every place with more guns has more shootings. It is so simple it seems almost tautological. Yet somehow this very simple fact is controversial.

closewith 2y ago

I wonder if you realise how much of a dystopian nightmare you have to be living in to write a comment like this and consider it reasonable.

croo 2y ago

I had the same line of thought as I am not following the topic and media hype can make an elephant out of a mouse. But based on this 2022 statistics USA really has a thing going on with school shootings... more than a hundred per year is way too much. I would definitely consider it "regularly" even if it seems a low number statistically (50 million students === 1 shooter / 500000 student ~?~ 1 shooting / 1000 school). https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/19982.jpeg https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/19982.jpeg