Mass shootings

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(02-26-2018, 10:13 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.

Yep, but we've been over how little fear and logic can be connected in people's minds.  I've seen enough people say that terrorists are a major threat but seatbelts are optional and don't make you safer, to draw that conclusion.

At any rate, in my biased mind one of the bigger things to take from this shooting is that the gunman's weapon was deadly enough to keep armed law enforcement officers thinking twice about running in....so teachers with handguns?  Is that enough?  This also brings up the notion that not all guns are created equal, but I don't expect the "He woulda killed 'em all with a rock if he didn't have that assault rifle" crowd to admit the police would have gleefully taken down a maniac with half a brick.