Good point. It reminds me of another interesting piece of information: There are over 100,000 public schools in the US. And the average attendance is around 500-600, roughly. This gives well over 5 million students, and yet only a few are affected by this kind of violence.
i.e. statistically, it’s not an issue until it actually happens to your child or one of your children’s’ friends, which is almost as likely as winning the lotto.
I see it as a purely emotional issue and not justified as a national story. It’s certainly not something the FedGov should be dealing with. It is a local issue.
You can't have local governments dealing with mutants who cannot be assessed accurately as threats because of Federal laws governing the privacy of medical records.
i.e. statistically, it’s not an issue until it actually happens to your child or one of your children’s’ friends, which is almost as likely as winning the lotto.
I say the same thing. There are the electronic signs all over Houston “238 Road Deaths this year!” - ok... imagine Houston, with 5,000,000 in the metro area, most taking multiple road trips per day. Let’s just cut that in half, 2.5 million people, and we’ll figure, half of those are drivers, and I’ll be generous and say 2 people per car. That’s 1.25 million cars - on one trip at least per day. There’s been 46 days, so at 1.25 million drivers per day, that’s 57,500,000 drivers so far this year.
One half of one million people have died in roadway wrecks in Texas - not just Houston, in TEXAS. That’s a rounding error.