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Yeah I was watching something on TV and they cut to a special news report to cover this. I was shocked. Isn’t there a school shooting pretty much every day now? Why did this warrant cutting into valuable day time TV programming? So I’m watching this breaking news wondering what’s so special about this particular shooting that can’t wait until the nightly news at 10:00, and the local police chief is giving a press conference breaking down in tears about how he never thought he would have to handle a school shooting and I’m like has your dimbass been paying attention to anything that’s been going on in this country for the last few decades? I would expect you to have a manual on your desk with procedures on how to handle this. Instead this yokel is rambling on about good and evil. I just smh.

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It’s a little less than once per week, on average. School shootings are much more rare. Wikipedia has the list, but it makes me too depressed to go through and tally it up to get the average.

Considering there are tens of thousands of schools across the US, most cops will never have to deal with a mass shooting, much less a school shooting.

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I had to do an unfortunate amount of scrolling after clicking 2020s…

Quick edit: by gawd the kid’s name was literally Colt

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No there isn’t, the media and gun control groups love to act like there is. The reality is much more nuanced than guns bad. Ban them and all this magically stops

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Will probably work better than whatever is done now. Which is fuck all.

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It won’t, we fix the underlying foundation. You don’t repair a house with foundation issues by painting the walls.

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Yeah. It’s only one every week!

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Yea…no it’s not.

Even NPR did a report on it:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

But you’ll ignore it and keep eating the bullshit from GVR and other anti-2a groups.

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