Mass shootings in the US have been predominantly at schools. We can either bury our heads in the sand with reasons we shouldn't do something about it or we actually do something about it. Sure percentage wise the probability is very low as shooting will happen at any particular school. But the end result of one goes beyond measure. We either come up with a realistic way to handle it or we get more useless gun control that will not stop it. What choice would you make if you had a kid in school. Doing nothing, as you seem to suggest above, isn't an option.
I wouldn't give a shit if I had a kid in school because I'm not a retard. My kid would have an exponentially greater chance of:
-dying on the way to or from school in a car accident or car vs ped
-dying because they were in a car and didnt wear a seatbelt
-dying because of a gang/bdc/crime/thug incident. (Exponentially more school age children die from simply being in some dump city where gang violence happens)
-dying of a drug overdose or some other bullshit involving drugs or alcohol (how many of you know a school shooting victim personally or one who was even IN a school that was
shot up? on the other hand it doesnt take much to find someone who had a kid who died of a Heroin/fent overdose these days).
-if female, getting raped
and on and on and on. (theres much better examples likely but I'm not going to write them all out. Look at CDC death stats by age for starters).
Terrorism and school shootings are a statistically insignifigant source of death despite all the media bullshit and hype designed to get eveyrone all white suburban Karen-braying and mad. It's just that the 24 hr news cycle has conditioned you and the karens to think that its some kind of a big deal. It really isn't.
School shootings are in a competition with under-18 covid deaths as being nearly irrelevant/insignificant in reality.
Quick googling shows that there are approximately
115,576 schools in america.
This week, all or nearly all of them will not have a school shooting. The better part of like 50+ something
MILLION children, will sit in these buildings for 6+ hours a day and not get shot or so much as hear a loud noise while in class. Despite all the media bullshit and karens crying, schools are on average probably on a per hour basis literally one of the safest places an average kid could ever be sitting for 6 hrs a day that isn't home.
Lets pretend for a moment that there was a school shooting once a month. (There isn't, though) The average wounded/death toll of these things isn't huge. They typically can't even kill more than a dozen people or so. Even if we had 12 people a month die that's basically 144 deaths a year, which is still probably way higher than most years.
During that same time period more "school aged children"
WILL BE SHOT ON THE STREET in the city they live in or near, and may or may not die. But MSM doesnt care about that, cuz most of them are brown.
(our MSM outlets are by far the biggest, most racist institutions in america. Americans IMHO aren't objectively racist to a degree that matters, but the news stations they watch certainly are. ) One nypost article I just looked at, said in one recent pre covid year 216 kids were shot in Chicago. Most of them probably werent shot inside a school.
I get it though, you want it to stop because you tihnk it will make the braying gun control karens go away. And I would like it to stop too for the same reason, but I'm under no delusion that it hasn't been blown out of proportion.
Solutions? How about trying to fix the roots of the problem instead of just treating the symptom? The roots of these problems are a lot about what
@richc discusses in his post. You want people to stop killing each other for stupid reasons you're going to have to get society and families to stop being defective. But nobody wants to talk about those things because its uncomfortable and "complicated" but if everyone just keeps humming while ignoring the two elephants in the room the elephants are going to keep raping the shit out of our society and
will go unchecked.
I dont entirely disagree on hardening schools. But not because of rubber lipping lanzas. But because of the possibility of a greater memetic threat. A handful of kids getting shot
sucks, but we would all collectively be in a world of hurt if some towels and a couple minivans came along and decided to pull a mumbai on a school. You could basically kiss all your
rights goodbye after that, after the karens start a braying national chorus of "save the orphans" grade singing and handwaving.
ETA: even the above though, is rapidly becoming a fading threat though. Not because we suppressed the towels from doing it, but because there are other more pervasive problems that are net greater damage than that stuff. Towels dont need to terrorize america, we're terrorizing ourselves. (look at covid response, as one example... that was more self induced terror than any jihadist could ever imagine. When covid was birthed, some Taliban commander instantly became jealous of Fauci in his ability to terrorize millions of people).