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> But in this case both are bad. If it was a false negative students might need therapy for a more tragic reason. Given the probability of police officers in t
by tacticus 1y ago
> But in this case both are bad. If it was a false negative students might need therapy for a more tragic reason.
Given the probability of police officers in the USA taking any action as hostile and then ending up shooting him a false positive here is the same as swatting someone.
The system here sent the police off to kill someone.
- janalsncm 1y agoSure. But school shootings are also common in the US. A student who has brought a gun to a school is very likely not harmless. So false negatives aren’t free either.
- pbhjpbhj 1y agoWhat's the proportion of gun-carrying to shooting in schools?
- janalsncm 1y agoWell guns aren’t allowed in schools at all. It’s a felony. So if your point is that the ratio is low, that’s only because the denominator is way too big.
- pbhjpbhj 1y agoNo point, a question. I'd suspect kids would take guns to 'be cool', show friends, make threats without intention to actually use them. Also, intention to harm that wasn't followed through; intention to defend themselves if threatened; other reasons? Probably no sound stats, but I'm curious about it, so asked.
- potato3732842 1y agoConsidering the slices of the socioeconomic ladder mostly involved here, I'd bet that "it won't grow legs if it's on me" dwarfs all other motives for bringing guns to school.
- A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 1y agoYep. Think of it as the new exciting version of swatting. Naturally, one will still need to figure out common ways to force a specific misattribution, but, sadly, I think there will be people working on it ( if there aren't already ).
- litlTucker 1y ago[dead]