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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the bottom line. 
Your child's school is protected against this kind of incident for the same reason that whatever airplane you are flying on is protected from extremists flying it into a building. Your child's school is protected because--statistically speaking--this stuff never happens.  It will never happen to you or your kids.[/quote]

I wish this were true! While schools are certainly among the safest places, including home, for any child, evil can strike in the most peaceful communities. Statistically speaking we're often very few degrees removed from evil disasters. To prove it, try this: I personally know two people who died in 9/11, I myself was shot in one of the safest places on earth by some crazy person wielding a weapon, and my husband ran into one of the victims of the notorious Empire State building shootings. So how probably is it for our children to be fully sheltered from evil? Let's not stick our heads in the sand. All these incidents are actionable lessons that, as a society, we need to do more to foster peace and to keep the deranged away from means of murder and destruction.[/quote]

I your personal experience of being shot has understandably colored your perception, but, no, your elementary school is not going to get shot up by a crazy person. I can guarantee you that. In the same way that I can guarantee you are not going to win $50 million dollars in Powerball.

The chances of you having an anvil drop on your head while walking to work are much, much greater. You don't obsess over that. And you don't consider yourself "sticking your head in the sand" either. [/quote]

One last thing: none of this means that we shouldn't "foster peace" and keep deranged people away from firearms, either. We should do that for its own sake.[/quote]

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