Have we really only seen Camera Hogg’s mug on tv and in print for less than a year?
Definitions, please! This article is replete with ambiguous and vague terms.
Actually, it’d be the worst year for gun free zones.
I imagine the definition of a school shooting was stretched to the very limits of material science.
Worst year for schools in neighborhoods of the left.
BBC, huh?
Now do 2018 stabbings in the U.K.
180 days of school/year in the US?
That would be about 6 months of no school.
When I attended school, we got off about a week for Christmas and there were no Fall or Spring breaks. Then, we were out of school June, July and August. Roughly ~260 days of school each year.
Is it any wonder that over the past couple of decades the school kids have been dumbed down?
OFFS! Opioids deaths-—————meh.
Millions of students had their brains destroyed by government School communist indoctrination
Numbers meant to sound sensational but... In a nation of 320+ million, not terribly statistically significant. I understand every single one of those is a life-altering event for surviving friends and family. I understand first-hand loss of family members. But let's not fall into the pro-disarmament leftists' hands of letting our emotion and empathy rule over our reason.
They want us to be upset, they want to instill a sense of crisis, of urgency to "DO SOMETHING!" But let's consider, let's put those 113 deaths or injuries into perspective. From the CDC's database 1999-2014 average deaths (not including injuries) per year:
These are all deaths - not including injuries to pump up the numbers. Because if you look at actual deaths in school shootings for 2017 that is just 16 people, which includes 4 perpetrators/shooters. So that translates to just 12 innocent victims. Again, yes, a tragedy for those 12. But in perspective, not cause for a national panic and mass surrendering of rights and protection in the rush to "DO SOMETHING!"
You don't see people lobbying local legislatures and even Congress to "DO SOMETHING ABOUT CONSTIPATION!" Nor do people seem to be overly afraid of their John Deere (mowers or farm machinery). And I'm a little curious about the gymnastics other people are apparently performing in bed to get strangled or fall hard enough to kill themselves...well, maybe not that curious...
The point is, statistics and numbers can be (and are) presented in such a way as to be persuasive. Yet you have to look deeper to realize that if you really want to help your fellow man, maybe instead of hanging useless (as in demonstrably ignored by criminals) "gun free zone" signs at schools you ought to occasionally pass out free fiber supplements.
Finally, yes, this post is written with a rather light and irreverent tone for such a serious topic. I am not belittling the suffering caused by shootings. I am very intentionally belittling the false sense of urgency and panic would-be gun-grabbers attempt to convey.
Another headline they could have used:
“Parkland Students focus on school shootings precipitate most school shootings ever recorded in one year”
This includes suicides.
From the list:
Three students were injured when a teacher, who is also a reserve police officer, accidentally fired his gun in a classroom as he was teaching a gun safety lesson.
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