• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    School shootings in particular are a “new thing” - I’ll grant that. But in general gun violence in the US is definitely not a new thing.

    EDIT: Also - schools shooting today are actually still “extreme outliers” on the order of the gang violence of the '30s. They’re far more common than they should be, but they’re still pretty rare given the number of schools in the US.

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      2 months ago

      for every school shooting there’s like 5 “school lockdown because of unidentified person on campus”