02-26-2018, 10:13 PM
(02-26-2018, 09:26 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Good thing it's unnecessary then. The odds of a student being shot at school are an order of magnitude less than their odds of getting killed in the car ride to school. Their odds of slipping and getting severely injured getting out of the shower is far higher. Literally nothing needs to change as the event is so rare as to not warrant it. As has been endlessly stated, this shooting should never have happened and wouldn't have happened if just one of numerous people had actually done their job in regards to this kid. Fix what didn't work before you create another thing that might not work.
A political scientist I follow online ran the numbers. Based on current trends, a kin in K-12 has a 0.06% chance of being in a school with a school shooting per year. They have a 0.00014% chance of being shot in such an event each year.
There are real reasons to look at what happened here and we should always seek to prevent these shootings from happening, but the risks are overblown in the media to the nth degree.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
