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I'm an 80s kid, I was playing outside at age 6 unsupervised / with my friends. I feel like this should be pretty normal and totally agree with your last line:

by myko 10mo ago

I'm an 80s kid, I was playing outside at age 6 unsupervised / with my friends. I feel like this should be pretty normal and totally agree with your last line: What honestly are the kids supposed to be scared of?

lotsofpulp 10mo ago
I teach my kids their biggest risk is a driver distracted by their phone in a vehicle with a hood height at or above the kids’ head height.
- walthamstow 10mo ago
  Accurate. Oddly enough on this side of the pond most people who would not want to raise their kids in the US would mention school shootings. The real, ubiquitous, daily danger is massive cars and lazy drivers.
  - Hendrikto 10mo ago
    Just because you have even bigger problems in the US, that does not mean that is isn’t cause for concern to be the school shooting capital of the world by an enormous margin. The US have more school shootings than the rest of the world combined. It is not unfounded or irrational to be concerned.
    - walthamstow 10mo ago
      I live in Britain. If you read back you'll see I am talking about the opinions of Britons and Europeans of raising children in the US. My point is it still a very rare thing even in the most common place in the world. The weight of school shootings in people's minds is more emotional than statistical. Careless drivers kill way more people in the US and they do it every day.
    - _yb2s 10mo ago
      Gun related deaths and homicide are big enough risk factors to be worth worrying about and mitigating as a parent, but school shootings in particular are so rare they are not a major safety concern for parents- gun accidents and homicide outside of school are much much bigger risks.
    - phantasmish 10mo ago
      > It is not unfounded or irrational to be concerned. I ran the numbers upon having kids. It is irrational.
    - myko 10mo ago
      As an aside, firearms are the leading cause of deaths for kids in the US: https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/12/guns-are-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-american-children-what-to-know/ https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/12/guns-are-the-leadi... https://www.cnn.com/health/guns-death-us-children-teens-dg https://www.cnn.com/health/guns-death-us-children-teens-dg I don't think it's particularly useful to focus on school shootings in particular vs other shootings

by myko 10mo ago

lotsofpulp 10mo ago

I teach my kids their biggest risk is a driver distracted by their phone in a vehicle with a hood height at or above the kids’ head height.

walthamstow 10mo ago
Accurate. Oddly enough on this side of the pond most people who would not want to raise their kids in the US would mention school shootings. The real, ubiquitous, daily danger is massive cars and lazy drivers.
- Hendrikto 10mo ago
  Just because you have even bigger problems in the US, that does not mean that is isn’t cause for concern to be the school shooting capital of the world by an enormous margin. The US have more school shootings than the rest of the world combined. It is not unfounded or irrational to be concerned.
  - walthamstow 10mo ago
    I live in Britain. If you read back you'll see I am talking about the opinions of Britons and Europeans of raising children in the US. My point is it still a very rare thing even in the most common place in the world. The weight of school shootings in people's minds is more emotional than statistical. Careless drivers kill way more people in the US and they do it every day.
  - _yb2s 10mo ago
    Gun related deaths and homicide are big enough risk factors to be worth worrying about and mitigating as a parent, but school shootings in particular are so rare they are not a major safety concern for parents- gun accidents and homicide outside of school are much much bigger risks.
  - phantasmish 10mo ago
    > It is not unfounded or irrational to be concerned. I ran the numbers upon having kids. It is irrational.
  - myko 10mo ago
    As an aside, firearms are the leading cause of deaths for kids in the US: https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/12/guns-are-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-american-children-what-to-know/ https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/12/guns-are-the-leadi... https://www.cnn.com/health/guns-death-us-children-teens-dg https://www.cnn.com/health/guns-death-us-children-teens-dg I don't think it's particularly useful to focus on school shootings in particular vs other shootings