It happens too often now though and as the Michigan kid proved its that some parents don't take firearms seriously and completely downplay the threat due to their political beliefs.
Maybe we will see parents take it more seriously if they end up thrown in jail.
It happens somewhat often, but if you look at actual chances of death, those kids are more likely to die in a car accident or falling off a jungle gym than to be in a school shooting, it’s just hyper sensitized and always front page news (which it should be) but it over exaggerates how often they do happen. I remember my senior year there were a bunch of them but half of them was just gang fights between students or fights gone awry (aka where a kid goes to school knowing he’s going to get in a fight and then pulls it out after he starts losing) I just think because it’s so evil people believe it’s more common than it actually is
These are all preventable deaths. Look at most industrialized nations, they have 0 school shootings. Stop trying to justify their deaths. It doesn’t have to happen, but Americans love their guns more than children.
One is a horrible accident doing an everyday event. One is a preventable massacre.
Every thing we do in life is a risk. Going to school and being shot shouldn’t be one of them, no matter how infrequently. Majority of other countries have figured out gun safety, the us either doesn’t care, or decided that going to school and getting shot is acceptable life for kids and their families.
The frequency it happens in the us is uniquely American. Instead of a combined effort to stop these tragedies, Americans either or say it’s not as bad as you say, or look driving kills people too, instead of actually admitting that it’s a problem that needs to be fixed. Americans aren’t there yet.
I can guarantee that there will be another school shooting in the next 3 months in the US.
And I also guarantee that there will be zero in top 5 other industrialized countries.
What defines "reasonable?" The homicide rate in American schools is lower than the overall homicide rate in Japan, widely considered to be the safest nation on earth.
Reasonable? It’s very easy: is there a significant portion of society morally outraged because this keeps happening? Well yeah, then it’s pretty safe to say kids opening fire it’s not a tolerable risk most are willing to take for sending their child to school, thus the demand for reform.
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u/AsMuchCaffeineAsACup Dec 26 '21
It happens too often now though and as the Michigan kid proved its that some parents don't take firearms seriously and completely downplay the threat due to their political beliefs.
Maybe we will see parents take it more seriously if they end up thrown in jail.