Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread

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ilikecheese said:
It's utter madness driven by NRA money.

Arming 20% of teachers puts a bullseye on 100% of unarmed teachers.
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Tbh think teachers are already a target for an angry student so doubt it increases the risk that much. Especially as mass school shootings, although increasing and far too high, are still pretty rare events.

More concerning to me is that those guns through handling accidents, misunderstandings, suicides and being stolen/wrestled away are far more likely to increase the number of people killed/injured in schools.

Although it probably would put a bullseye on some, the last school worker who concealed carry that I recall being discussed in the media was Philando Castile.
 
LinekersLegs said:
Tbh think teachers are already a target for an angry student so doubt it increases the risk that much. Especially as mass school shootings, although increasing and far too high, are still pretty rare events.

More concerning to me is that those guns through handling accidents, misunderstandings, suicides and being stolen/wrestled away are far more likely to increase the number of people killed/injured in schools.

Although it probably would put a bullseye on some, the last school worker who concealed carry that I recall being discussed in the media was Philippe Castile.
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My point is that in arming a few, the teachers immediately become the first target because the shooter would neutralize that risk first.

The fact that we are even discussing arming educators is embarrassing.
 
LinekersLegs said:
There is an understandable focus on mass shootings at the moment but would be wonderful if there was also attempts to bring oveall gun homicides down.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-gun-control-debate-ignores-black-lives
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I agree totally with what your saying but while the momentum is there I think all the attention has to be trying to get regulations on semi-automatics and bump stocks and perhaps age restrictions (which may have a knock-on effect helping the overall gun crime figures anyhow). I get the feeling as an outsider that if more voices/issues are brought up the more watered-down the message becomes.
 
..there’s a short video doing the rounds on Facebook of a 14 year old boy in the US being refused when he tries to purchase booze, cigarettes, lottery scratch cards and adult magazines, but he has no problem buying a shotgun.
 
I really can't understand this gun culture over there in US. Imagining my kids playing with (even empty) guns would disgust me but most of the folks LOVE to teach their kids about guns etc. Not to mention you can buy guns even in supermarkets, malls..It is that easy and just like buying tomatoes for Americans. That normalized and random.

Really either they should change this gun craziness in their culture or these 'X killed fellow studens in the school'' stuff will keep going. I am afraid.
 
The binman chronicles said:
I agree totally with what your saying but while the momentum is there I think all the attention has to be trying to get regulations on semi-automatics and bump stocks and perhaps age restrictions (which may have a knock-on effect helping the overall gun crime figures anyhow). I get the feeling as an outsider that if more voices/issues are brought up the more watered-down the message becomes.
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Probably true but unfortunately there never does seem to be a good time to discuss ways to reduce it other than “lock em up” :(
 
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