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I just want to say two important things..
First the recent school shooting is a tragedy and we should all be sad about the death of any children, especially as a victim of muder.
Second, we have to realize, for the sake ofperspective, how unfathomably rare it is for a child to die in a school shooting in america. It seems common because america is huge and the news makes this stuff public. But the numbers are more telling.
To put some numbers to it the chance of a child dyingin a school shooting in a public shool on any given day is 1 in 614 million. For comparison the chance of a person getting struck by lightening on any given day is **less** than 1 in 370 million.
In other words a child is more than **twice** as likely in the USA to get struck by lightening as they are to die in a school shooting.
Should we still mourne and be outraged by it... sure.. does that mean it is a problem that is common enough to be a huge concern... not really. We should probably put more effort into addressing the "lightening problem" than we should be about addressing school shootings.
@freemo This is the very silliest of whataboutism, and judging by the replies, it seems to have served its purpose. It easily gets people off of discussing the very real problem of US gun violence (which is utterly different than nearly every other country in the world), and instead discussing whether or not people struck by lightning knew it was happening before it did.
Bravo. That's whataboutism at its best.
@kristofor Dont be an idiot, that was not the intent. People want to talk about it, great. But instead of being an ass and resorting to personal attacks because you dont like the way the converssation went be mature about it and jump in and steer the conversation to the points you feel are important.. you have the mike, talk tell us whats important, I know ill be happy to respond as well others, at least, as long as you stop with bad-faith nonsense.