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originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: Aazadan
Maybe.
Will there be more stabbings, bludgeonings, and beatings?
Probably. But those are also less deadly.
There have been 57 school shootings in the US this year. If you exclude a bunch of them as the gun rights folks would like to do, that number falls down to 8, and casualties themselves were in 5 events with 31 total killed (26 being students). If they had knives rather than guns, how many would have died? I suspect it would be less than 6 people per event on average.
At the same time though, we're talking about fewer than 100 students per year out of a population of about 90 million students. The numbers are not all that high to begin with.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
If you are going with the "57 shootings this year" nonsense, im not sure we can even find a common language with which to discuss this topic.
originally posted by: conspiracy nut
a reply to: UnBreakable
So how did all the kids that did all the school shootings get their guns? The kid in Florida was living w his friends pro gun pro trump parents who were cool w his gun obsession, I wonder if the Texas kids parents had pro gun and pro trump racist Nazi leanings, the apple rarely falls far from the tree. Where are these kids parents when their kid is going to school wearing Nazi embls and trenchcoats all year round in Texas weather?
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
Maybe im just sick and twisted...but I can certainly think of ways to kill people that are still pretty effective, and cause much, much more carnage and pain. Because I still assert that dying by gun shot is better than dying by being bludgeoned in the face.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Southern Guardian
So how would you, SG, handle this?
More laws? (Murder, discharging a weapon, having a weapon in school are already illegal)
More checks and balances? (See US debt)
Perhaps just straight up confiscation?