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When people talk about "stopping school shootings" they don't tend to want to substitute a student with a knife getting arrested at gunpoint with that student s
by aidenn0 2y ago
When people talk about "stopping school shootings" they don't tend to want to substitute a student with a knife getting arrested at gunpoint with that student stabbing another student.
- bdangubic 2y agothis may be a bit unfair. stopping school shootings by any sane argument is ALWAYS about gun control. as an exercise - take any definition of a school shooting you desire. then compare USA with any country on the planet of your choosing (you can even pick random geographical area spanning random number of countries) and see whether the childhood our children are subjected to are comparable. we have failed and are continuing to fail our children, regardless of how you choose to define what school shooting
- aidenn0 2y agoEven conceding that point, if I were to say something absurd like "There were sixteen-quadrillion school shootings in the US last year" and someone pushes back on that, I can't just fall back on "well there were a lot" and absolve myself of rhetorical malpractice.
- bdangubic 2y agoour public discourse currently is a lot of what we are talking about here - let's try to "define" what school shooting is. to me, as far as that goes (as I mentioned, regardless of the definition of it) we are not 3rd but 4th World Country