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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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      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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          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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            It’s literally the foundation in your stupid analogy. But whatever, it’s your kids, what do I care.

            I’ll keep upvoting these Onion posts every week it happens.

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              No it’s not, people don’t become violent because of an object…and you’re right, if you don’t live here then keep your nose out of the issue.

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                Gun nuts…

                Oh I’m keeping my nose out of it. But it doesn’t mean I will stop ridiculing your idiotic obsession with an object that you obviously care more about than the lives of innocent kids.

                I can see that the Onion title goes over your head, but I’m not suprised.

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                  Your ignorance on the topic shows. There are hundreds of millions of firearms in the hands of civs here in the states. If we had a gun problem, you’d know about it. We have an issue with our society that helps breed these issues and an inanimate object isn’t the root cause of it, but you wouldn’t understand this.

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              Are you suggesting because its not super recent it’s wrong? The fuck…

              Also, you’re wiki article literally proves my point.

              First line in 2020

              An individual who was not a student accidentally shot himself in the leg in the parking lot of Glades Central High School.[488]

              Yea…counted as a school shooting.

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                I’m sorry. How many times per week has someone shot a gun in a school in the US in 2024 again?

                I can’t seem the find that in your reply…

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                  According to your link, it’s not even monthly…

                  Shots were fired outside Thornton Academy, coming from two separate cars shooting at each other. It was unsure if they were students or had any connection to the school. No known injuries are reported, and the suspects immediately fled off. A school bus was also careened by one of the two evading cars, with no reported injuries as of Feb. 10.[705]

                  Not a school shooting…nor by students…but its for some reason there…in the list. That entire list is basically shit like that.

                  So it’s pretty damn rare, but you can’t be bothered to even read your own sources, so you’ll continue to stick your fingers in your ears and act like facts don’t exist.

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                    Wow. You’re really bad at math. Maybe the reason you think this isn’t a problem is because you’ve never been in school?

                    Wanna try again?

                    EDIT: Naaaah. I’ll just give it to you. You’re right! It’s only once a month.

                    Just because it want to see how much of a fucking idiot you’ll make of yourself trying to bend farther over backwards to see if you can walk it back to once a year and still look like a fucking psychotic moron.

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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