03-21-2018, 07:16 AM
quote:
Originally posted by TomK
"What about b) Deaths attributed to school shootings since we started counting (some 200 years ago), do not even total 500?"
Apologies, I hardly ever post in threads about guns, but I find the comment above very disturbing. It reminds me of those that won't vaccinate their kids. Collateral damage is just fine because an irrational belief supersedes the safety of other children.
All - just a request, but when you quote numbers or stats, please cite your sources and more, let everyone know if you are talking about a rate or total numbers otherwise it's meaningless.
With billions upon billions of people on this planet with no end in sight to the population explosion, I do not feel obligated to make changes to my personal life over such small loss of life as the roughly 500 students killed (TOTAL) in school shootings -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sc...ted_States
More people have likely been killed by RLW, though we don't study those deaths as closely but at any rate I don't remember the last school walkout for 'safer slugs'.