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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if switching makes you feel safer, you should switch. But your best bet is to keep your kids out of gangs/crews and don’t have a gun in your house.

Recent data:

New England J of Med (April 2022)

Leading Causes of Death among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1999 through 2020.
The previous analysis, which examined data through 2016, showed that firearm-related injuries were second only to motor vehicle crashes (both traffic-related and nontraffic-related) as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents, defined as persons 1 to 19 years of age.4 Since 2016, that gap has narrowed, and in 2020, firearm-related injuries became the leading cause of death in that age group (Figure 1). From 2019 to 2020, the relative increase in the rate of firearm-related deaths of all types (suicide, homicide, unintentional, and undetermined) among children and adolescents was 29.5% — more than twice as high as the relative increase in the general population. The increase was seen across most demographic characteristics and types of firearm-related death (Fig. S1 in the Supplementary Appendix, available with the full text of this letter at NEJM.org).[/quote]

OP here. DH has a Ph.D. in statistics. You could look at the stats until you're blue in the face, but ultimately you need to do what feels right. And private feels right. I don't like the comparison to lightning strikes. How often do we hear about lightning strikes on the news or even around the world? I have lived in SO MANY of the cities where mass shootings have taken place. It feels like a small world. [/quote]

Jeez.

And that’s why I said you should switch if it makes you feel safer. If being married to someone who works with and understands stats doesn’t bring home to you that your children’s chances of being shot at school are really low, then you should go with your gut.

The data was for those arguing about the statistics.

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