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

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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.

It also highly varies based off racial group too.

https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/the-growing-racial-disparity-among-youth-gun-deaths/

By 2019, Black youth had a gun mortality rate 4.3 times higher than white youth and a gun homicide rate more than 14 times higher. “There is no biologic plausibility for these disparities but rather they are a reflection of racist systems and policies that perpetuate inequities in violent injuries and death,” the authors wrote.

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St. Isidore Online Academy is a good balance of interaction, one-on-one attention, and you don’t have to worry about traveling to school: https://queenofapostlesschool.org/st-isidore-online-academy/.

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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.

It also highly varies based off racial group too.

https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/the-growing-racial-disparity-among-youth-gun-deaths/

By 2019, Black youth had a gun mortality rate 4.3 times higher than white youth and a gun homicide rate more than 14 times higher. “There is no biologic plausibility for these disparities but rather they are a reflection of racist systems and policies that perpetuate inequities in violent injuries and death,” the authors wrote.

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I think you'd be better off moving out of the US. Mass shootings happen in plenty of places that aren't public schools.

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We go to private and it is definitely safer, and yet at the same time free of the county's theatrical version of safety.

We have a private road, many cameras, several well-trained security people, all kinds of fancy locking and communication systems, and probably more stuff that I don't even know about.

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Anonymous wrote:Please also donate to gun control organizations, OP!

Banning most guns is the only way to reduce mass shooting incidents, as well as the majority of firearm homicides, which occur as accidents in the home or suicides. The data is incontrovertible on this. Every other wealthy nation has banned guns and as a result, do not have nearly the number of firearm homicides per capita that the US does.

So you should move to one of those places if you can’t accept our Constitutional rights shall not be infringed.

Go join the well-regulated militia with your musket, Cletus.

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Anonymous wrote:This is PP. I mean not much more you can do if you’re not willing to enact gun control.

You start paying attention to the lack of effective mental health services for teen boys from fatherless homes.

Would you STFU about fatherless homes. No evidence it matters.

Name one teen killer who had a present, loving and respectable father at home.

The shooters from Columbine, the shooter of the Sunday school, Virginia Tech shooter. Want me to go on?

Zero evidence that either killer had a present and loving father at home. The mother who wrote a book is an obvious nut job.

Blah blah blah fathers, blah blah blah video games.

It's the godforsaken GUNS.

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Anonymous wrote:As scary as this is, I am far more worried about cancer, car accidents and drugs and mental health.

Exactly. Illegal drug abuse is killing over 100,000 Americans a year. Many of them are children. Astounding how there isn’t a peep here about THOSE kids. Why?

Stop deflecting and stick your whataboutism in your ear. You're not fooling anyone with a brain.

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Anonymous wrote:There was just a private school shooting in DC a couple of months ago. Being private doesn't protect you

95% of school shootings have been at public schools. That is a real statistic.

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What percentage of grade school students in this country are enrolled in public schools? Not sure if your point is that 95% is high or low without that context.

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~95% of K-12 students in the US attend public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:~95% of K-12 students in the US attend public schools.

omg.....PP, you need some math help.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grade school students in this country are enrolled in public schools? Not sure if your point is that 95% is high or low without that context.

It's irrelevant. The question would be what percentage of all schools are private schools. The answer is about 25%, not including colleges. If you include colleges, the answer is closer to 50%. And yet, either way the 5% statistic for school shootings holds true.

So, yes, private schools are safer from shootings. And it's pretty obvious why if you've spent time in both types of institution. Public schools are just more....public. And privates are generally more closed, more walled off, gated off, more covered in cameras and high-quality security, more traffic-controlled, further from roads, on private roads, and so on. While publics, whether elementary or college, tend to be physically open and central to the communities in which they are located. It's not complicated.

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Anonymous wrote:I think you'd be better off moving out of the US. Mass shootings happen in plenty of places that aren't public schools.

True! They tend to happen where there are more guns in the public hands, so the US. When guns are taken out of circulation, like in NZ or UK, mass shootings go down....and with it school shootings. It's so sad that our lawmakers and not all the population want to look towards successes from other countries... we could learn something.

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Shall not be infringed.