• Whoresradish@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Are shootings that occur near a school but don’t involve any students let alone kids really school shootings? Not enough people look at the details of reported “school shootings”. They are massively inflated with events that I would not consider a school shooting.

    • prole@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      A quintessentially American viewpoint; that a shooting isn’t that bad because it happened near a school rather than inside.

      Embarrassing.

      • cannache@slrpnk.net
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        11 months ago

        I mean to be fair, it’s a difference between a public shooting and a school shooting. Property law matters. Contact your lawyer today, before it happens to you!

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      11 months ago

      How is that any better? So when a shooting isn’t at a school but near it it doesn’t danger the children at all? Is there a magic barrier? I mean ye, it’s not technically a school shooting but it is still fucking mental. The anxiety those kids would feel when they hear shots, “am I gonna die now?”. No child should be afraid like that, the adults are failing them in the States.

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        11 months ago

        As I stated a lot of the school shootings did not involve any children, but you want to still use the arguement of “think of the children!” Most of the shootings could not be verified to have even happened. Most of the reported shootings occured with handguns and not rifles. Most of the shootings involved drug dealing. You idiots are twisting the facts on these shootings as much as republicans twist facts on abortion and it is disgusting.

        We have a right to bear arms because ever government wants to become totalitarian and our ability to arm ourselves is the only defense when protecting our right to vote and have democracy. Why did the USSR and CCP disarm their population? Why have successful laws passed to disarm americans only been targeted at blacks and other minorities? Use your head for two fucking seconds and realize that the threat of violence is the only thing that keeps corrupt politicians honest. I am thinking of the kids and praying they still have a democratic government when I die that respects their rights.

    • iegod@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Oh shit guys yeah Phew thanks. We can all relax now. No need to do anything .