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Total USA gun deaths, inc. suicide stands at 36,160 for 2022.
Today's mass shooting in the US
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Sounds pretty stupid when you have the context of armed law enforcement scared for their life to engage a school shooter for an hour.
Here teacher, maybe you'll have more motivation than armed police. Use those teaching qualifications and low pay and this gun.
Arm the kids, problem solved, just ignore the documentary the Japanese made.
One quick check later...
Students in Israel Don’t Carry Guns to Class, Contrary to Social Media Posts - FactCheck.org
Israel has established strict measures in response to armed attacks on its schoolchildren. But social media posts falsely claim there have been "no school shootings in Israel" and use a photo to misleadingly suggest students carry weapons to class. Only guards and other specific personnel -- not...
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Israel has a law that school sites require an armed guard instructed to engage attackers.
That's not a teacher or a rent a cop.
Both of those sentences are false. Israel never had problems with school shootings, and did not arm teachers.
Where do you get this nonsense from?
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America, where tons of people/kids dying is a price worth paying so they can boff one off over their guns.
For some context on how low that number is -
US Deaths in 2020:
42,000 killed by falls
40,500 killed in vehicle accidents
87,000 killed accidental poisioning
So gun deaths have a way to go yet before they get high enough to be called a "problem" in the US, irrespective of our feelings about it.
Figures from the National Centre for Health Statistics which is part of the CDC - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm
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It's always interesting, when in response to people walking into classrooms and shooting school children, again and again, year after year - you always get some poor fool who has to drag out statistics on vehicle accidents, to make a point that there's no problem at all in America, with guns and gun violence.
it's always interesting that the people in this thread who pipe up whenever a certain type of mass shooting hits the news conveniently ignore the other mass shootings that happen every day in America, quite often involving kids. I wonder why that is?
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Maybe they are from the US and want people to know?
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Which ones are reported on UK news?
Maybe you should stop being controlled by the UK media telling you what to be outraged at?
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wtf
That doesn't pass the 'So what?' test. You're not convincing anyone with 'X is smaller than Y, therefore X is not a real problem.'
You're also comparing radically different incidents with radically different causes. It's not a valid comparison.
This thread does a good job of tracking mass shootings in the US, both those involving children and those that don't. I don't see anyone ignoring other mass shootings. More to the point, there are so many mass shootings, we're spoiled for choice.
Which is all the crazier when they can just look at photos online and do it like the rest of us!
Israel did have a problem with school shootings so they did something about it. But that was all in pre-internet days. Like 1974 - the Ma'a lot massacre.
As for arming teachers, from here:
Note point 2.
And if you exclude suicide?