Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread
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Wt actual f is that all about?
It's an American in a uniform, that attitude is so common
local reports out of Houston saying 8 kids have been killed. jeez.
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Here we go again.
So heart-wrenchingly sad
harris78
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How can there be any resistance left for tighter gun controls in the USA. I get the NRA etc etc, but jesus christ man it wouldnt be a week in the USA without this. It must be totally soul destroying for the normal American who understands the need and reason for gun control.
How Trump and Pence can stand there and trot the same lines over and over again whilst this happens is utterly beyond me.
Oh, there'll be plenty of resistance, not to worry. Pettifogger will be on later to give you a taste
If the students and teachers had F-11D blaster rifles and lightsabers, this never would have happened.
Whenever I hear politicians and the American press spouting this type of nonsense, it makes me physically angry. Take some bloody action!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...lier-for-schoolchildren-than-service-members/
The school shooting near Houston on Friday bolstered a stunning statistic: More people have been killed at schools this year than have been killed while serving in the military.
Initial estimates put the number killed at Santa Fe High School at eight, but, even without those deaths, nearly twice as many people were killed at schools than in the military. (The figures for the military were compiled from Defense Department news releases and include both combat and noncombat deaths.) Including only students who died in school shootings (excluding, for example, teachers) the total still exceeds military casualties.
A large part of that is the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. Without those 17 deaths, the totals for the two groups are about the same.
This is not usually the case. In 2017, the number of fatalities among service members was far higher than the number of people killed in school shootings, according to The Washington Post data.
The figures for 2018 do not suggest schools are more dangerous than combat zones. After all, there are more than 50 million students in public elementary and high schools and only about 1.3 million members of the armed forces. So far in 2018, a member of the military has been about 17 times as likely to be killed as someone is to die in a school shooting.
That said, it is still the case that 2018 is shaping up to be unusually deadly at schools. Comparing the number of deaths and the number of shooting incidents this year directly with those through May 18 of 2017, that difference is stark.
The school shooting near Houston on Friday bolstered a stunning statistic: More people have been killed at schools this year than have been killed while serving in the military.
Initial estimates put the number killed at Santa Fe High School at eight, but, even without those deaths, nearly twice as many people were killed at schools than in the military. (The figures for the military were compiled from Defense Department news releases and include both combat and noncombat deaths.) Including only students who died in school shootings (excluding, for example, teachers) the total still exceeds military casualties.
A large part of that is the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. Without those 17 deaths, the totals for the two groups are about the same.
This is not usually the case. In 2017, the number of fatalities among service members was far higher than the number of people killed in school shootings, according to The Washington Post data.
The figures for 2018 do not suggest schools are more dangerous than combat zones. After all, there are more than 50 million students in public elementary and high schools and only about 1.3 million members of the armed forces. So far in 2018, a member of the military has been about 17 times as likely to be killed as someone is to die in a school shooting.
That said, it is still the case that 2018 is shaping up to be unusually deadly at schools. Comparing the number of deaths and the number of shooting incidents this year directly with those through May 18 of 2017, that difference is stark.
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