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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]104 victims of school spree shootings in the last 25 years (avg. 4/year), and while every single one is an absolutely abominable, heartbreaking tragedy, this is not even on my radar as something to worry about for my school-aged kids

Drunk driving & fentanyl, yes[/quote]

Per the Washington Post, in a story updated just yesterday, there have been 416 school shootings since Columbine.  Over 300,000 students (sum total of the population of students at those 416 schools at the time of the shooting) have been exposed to gun violence at their schools.  213 children and educators have been killed, and 464 injured.
Their accounting seems to include only elementary and secondary schools.  Shootings at colleges, such as the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 that killed 32 students and professors, aren't included in their tally.
[b]There's been a marked increase in school shootings in the last 10-15 years.[/b][/quote]

Because of mental illness, poor parenting, and social media. [/quote]
Every other developed country has those things. They don’t have monthly school shootings.[/quote]

Then why do other nations with high gun ownership not have this problem? [/quote]
They don’t allow parents to give their 13-year-olds who have already been interviewed by the FBI for making threats AR-15s for Christmas? Just a guess.
“The father of the Apalachee High School mass shooting suspect told investigators this week he purchased the gun used in the killings as a holiday present for his son in December 2023.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/05/us/winder-georgia-shooting-apalachee-high-school?cid=ios_app
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oh my god.  that's truly horrific.

The father of the mass shooting suspect accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, told investigators this week he had purchased the gun used in the killings as a holiday present for his son in December 2023, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.

Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student, is accused of killing two students and two teachers with an AR-style rifle in the Wednesday shooting. Nine more people were hospitalized.

One source told CNN the AR-15-style rifle was purchased at a local gun store as a Christmas present.

The timeline the teen’s father, Colin Gray, provided to authorities would put the gun purchase months after authorities first contacted Gray and his family to investigate school shooting threats made online.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia closed that investigation because the tip about the threat could not be substantiated.[/quote]

Oh this man is an idiot. If the FBI knocks on your door with this type of information about your son the last thing you need to do is buy him a gun. What a dumb thing to do. I have a hard time believing that the father has zero indication that his son had problems. [/quote]

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