I'm seriously considering taking my kids out of public school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have to keep living your life. There will always be another tragedy, illness, war to worry about.

I'm heartbroken for what happened too.

Yes there will always be more tragedies until the pro-gun Republcants are driven from office.

We should all put our children in public schools in Baltimore and DC and. New York and other spots where only Democrats get elected so that they will be safe.

and well educated!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you drive to school? Or spend any time on a road whatsoever?
Way riskier.

I'm sorry you're feeling anxious, op. Maybe getting active might help. For both gun safety and road safety, parents need to mobilize and push for change

Driving is definitely more deadly than gun homicides (DOT, FBI).

Not for kids. Gun violence is more deadly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you drive to school? Or spend any time on a road whatsoever?
Way riskier.

I'm sorry you're feeling anxious, op. Maybe getting active might help. For both gun safety and road safety, parents need to mobilize and push for change

Driving is definitely more deadly than gun homicides (DOT, FBI).

Nope. Gun deaths surpassed car deaths for children ages 1 - 21.

And part of that is because we saw a problem (people dying in car accidents) and worked hard in both the government and private sector to make cars safer.
If only we could use that energy on what is now the leading cause of death for children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you drive to school? Or spend any time on a road whatsoever?
Way riskier.

I'm sorry you're feeling anxious, op. Maybe getting active might help. For both gun safety and road safety, parents need to mobilize and push for change

You’re wrong.

Statistically, American children are more likely to die from gun violence than from car accidents.

[Anonymous]

It is safer to be an on-duty cop than it is to be a school child.
More school children have been shot to death this year than LEOs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter loves public kinder. I was anxious about sandy hook even before she started K, and now this. I would feel better knowing she's at a smaller school with less chance of getting shot. People like to say privates aren't any safer, but if you look at the statistics, they are.

There has yet to be a mass shooting at a small private elementary school. It's what I hold onto when I drop my children off in the morning.

[Anonymous]

More kids are harmed at home than at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have to keep living your life. There will always be another tragedy, illness, war to worry about.

I'm heartbroken for what happened too.

Yes there will always be more tragedies until the pro-gun Republcants are driven from office.

We should all put our children in public schools in Baltimore and DC and. New York and other spots where only Democrats get elected so that they will be safe.

and well educated!

Agreed! Gunmen intent on killing first Google state laws to determine blue or red state. Then they target red states. You can’t drive from a red state to blue in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No school is safe in America, but private schools are way safer than public.

They're all pretty safe, the occasional gruesome event notwithstanding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have to keep living your life. There will always be another tragedy, illness, war to worry about.

I'm heartbroken for what happened too.

Yes there will always be more tragedies until the pro-gun Republcants are driven from office.

We should all put our children in public schools in Baltimore and DC and. New York and other spots where only Democrats get elected so that they will be safe.

and well educated!

Agreed! Gunmen intent on killing first Google state laws to determine blue or red state. Then they target red states. You can’t drive from a red state to blue in this country.

*snort*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have to keep living your life. There will always be another tragedy, illness, war to worry about.

I'm heartbroken for what happened too.

Yes there will always be more tragedies until the pro-gun Republcants are driven from office.

We should all put our children in public schools in Baltimore and DC and. New York and other spots where only Democrats get elected so that they will be safe.

Don’t forget SF! So grateful that these blue cities are able
to offer such high-quality educational opportunities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you drive to school? Or spend any time on a road whatsoever?
Way riskier.

I'm sorry you're feeling anxious, op. Maybe getting active might help. For both gun safety and road safety, parents need to mobilize and push for change

You’re wrong.

Statistically, American children are more likely to die from gun violence than from car accidents.

If you include teenagers, yes. For children under 13, car wrecks are more deadly. And every death is tragic, but most of those teenage gun deaths are suicides or drug/gang related, not random school shootings.

[Anonymous]

I am down with removing gang members access to guns ! Suicide attempts without guns may be less effective overall too.

[Anonymous]

LMAO at the idea that private schools would be safer from a school shooting. I spent my entire education in the top private school in my state and have never, to this day (in college, grad school, or multiple workplaces) met a higher proportion of psychologically disturbed individuals than the students at that school. Luckily none of them happened to shoot up the school, but this was pre-columbine

[Anonymous]

I didn’t read all 13 pages so someone may have already posted this but there is a very good article published on April 22 this year by NPR.
“Firearms over took auto accidents as the leading cause of death in children.” This article explains very well that although the mass shootings get a lot of attention and media they are only a small part of the overall numbers of child deaths due to guns. Overwhelming numbers of kids have been killed in cities like Chicago where there are very strict gun laws. This is not a single solution problem. I do support an assault weapons ban, but this is far from the only thing we need to do.

Also, people, put your logic hats on. It does no one any good to go with your gut feeling about everything, especially when your anxiety is all about something that is so extremely unlikely to happen, private school or not.