[maz]

Maybe we should just make kids go to school in Canada.

If school shootings are this big scary threat to all children, or even children in certain states like Florida and Texas, then we could just shut down the schools in those states and start a pilot program where we give the parents a stipend so they can home school their children.

[Besoeker]

If school shootings are this big scary threat to all children, or even children in certain states like Florida and Texas, then we could just shut down the schools in those states and start a pilot program where we give the parents a stipend so they can home school their children.

Control access to firearms. Revoke that amendment that the NRA holds dear. It works in other countries.
Since 2000 there has been about 20 school shootings in USA. None in UK. The only one I can remember during my lifetime was Dunblane in 1996.

[Suntzu]

We have a constitution. The right to own firearms in guaranteed by the constitution (2nd Amendment). It is very difficult to amend the constitution and requires the ratification of 38 of 50 states.

[Besoeker]

We have a constitution. The right to own firearms in guaranteed by the constitution (2nd Amendment). It is very difficult to amend the constitution and requires the ratification of 38 of 50 states.

I know all that. But if you want to stop these shootings you need to do something. Even if that something is difficult.

[IamOver]

We have a constitution. The right to own firearms in guaranteed by the constitution (2nd Amendment). It is very difficult to amend the constitution and requires the ratification of 38 of 50 states.

I think amend the constitution is not a problem but change mentality and the base of the US economy it's a challenge. The image of the fat dad with his guns beside his bed; distrust and property make the " America First. " .

[Besoeker]

I think amend the constitution is not a problem

If it wasn't a problem it would have been done.

[QatzelOk]

Too thick to understand the difference between accidental and intentional?

Cars are not comparable to guns. Only morons try to compare the two.

Car deaths are usually caused by negligence or road rage.
Calling them "accidents" or "accidental" does no justice to the callousness of drivers in the face of all the death they cause.

If we can accept 40,000 deaths-by-car per year, we also have place for a few thousand deaths by school shooting.

Death is part of our commercial culture. Get used to it, there's lots more to come.

[Suntzu]

Car deaths are usually caused by negligence or road rage.
Calling them "accidents" or "accidental" does no justice to the callousness of drivers in the face of all the death they cause.

If we can accept 40,000 deaths-by-car per year, we also have place for a few thousand deaths by school shooting.

Death is part of our commercial culture. Get used to it, there's lots more to come.

School shooting deaths in the U.S. have averaged 16/year since the turn of the century.

[QatzelOk]

School shooting deaths in the U.S. have averaged 16/year since the turn of the century.

This was already shittified by looking at the number over the last million years.

More important question: how many kids need to be killed in one year before you react? And since 40,000 dead bodies (and hundreds of thousands of handicapped bodies) doesn't seem to bother anyone concerning cars, I guess 40,000 dead school children probably won't do anything.

A million?

[Godstud]

USA's number of school shooting is staggering when you compare it to other Western nations. You can paint a pretty picture if you want, @Suntzu, but it doesn't change the facts. School kids in Canada, UK and Australia don't have these problems on the scale that the USA does. School shootings should not be happening, and the government is doing nothing to prevent them.

More important question: how many kids need to be killed in one year before you react?

Exactly.

[Suntzu]

USA's number of school shooting is staggering when you compare it to other Western nations. You can paint a pretty picture if you want, @Suntzu, but it doesn't change the facts. School kids in Canada, UK and Australia don't have these problems on the scale that the USA does. School shootings should not be happening, and the government is doing nothing to prevent them.

Exactly.

We would be better off banning school busses. More kids are killed in bus accidents.

[Godstud]

Again, a moronic comparison. I expect this from Conservatives, however, who really don't want to address the issue. Anything to evade, even if it's a logical fallacy.

[Besoeker]

Again, a moronic comparison.

I agree. The difference is intent.

[Godstud]

The differences are many... including the fact that they are "accidental", a tool designed for transportation, not killing, the amount of tool usage(guns are used far less frequently and result in far more deaths), etc. etc.

Also, you don't have school DRIVINGS, do you?

[Suntzu]

Not all car crashes are accidental and many are negligent including the approximately half that are the result of alcohol.

[Besoeker]

Not all car crashes are accidental and many are negligent including the approximately half that are the result of alcohol.

You totally miss the point. You don't intentionally aim a car at someone with the intent of murdering them*.

[Suntzu]

You totally miss the point. You don't intentionally aim a car at someone with the intent of murdering them*.

Have you been in a coma for the last year? https://www.npr.org/2018/04/07/60056518 ... car-attack

[Godstud]

Was a car used in the Texas school shooting, or a gun? Not a car? STFU, and get back on topic.

[Suntzu]

Was a car used in the Texas school shooting, or a gun? Not a car? STFU, and get back on topic.

You need to speak through the tube, I can't seem to hear you!

[Besoeker]

Have you been in a coma for the last year? https://www.npr.org/2018/04/07/60056518 ... car-attack

Overwhelmingly untypical of motor vehicle fatalities.