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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Statistically, this kind of event, while horrible, is very, very far down on the list of things any of us need to worry about or plan for. The fear you feel comes from inside your head, not from any significant danger to you or your kids. [/quote]

I don't think you understand statistics.[/quote]

No, this person is correct. It’s about as likely as dying by lightning strike. Now, we still warn people not to stand out in open fields during a storm, and we should still take reasonable measures to ensure that zero children die in a school shooting. But living in fear as if this is a likely occurrence is not warranted. [/quote]

There is something deeply wrong with those of you that choose to normalize mass shootings of children. My DC is a sophomore in college and grew up with active shooter drills beginning in elementary school. That is not normal, and it does not happen anywhere else in the world. I knew it was unlikely, statistically speaking, that any of her schools would get shot up, but the possibility was in my mind. That possibility is something that most parents in the world don't even have to contemplate. Then she got to college where there was actually a shooting, and while she and thousands of other students were not shooting victims, they still had to endure a 12-hour lockdown and the fear that comes with that. Again, that is not normal anywhere else in the world. Whether it's statistically likely or not to become a victim of a school shooting, the possibility of it has changed our culture and has impacted an entire generation. Don't try to minimize that. [/quote]

No there isn’t. This is how some of us cope. We have to be realistic or it will break us. You’re right, it should not be normal and we should not have to live with it. But I can either worry myself to death or I can stop, take a breath, and think about reality so that I can go about my life as a functioning human being and parent who doesn’t project their anxieties onto their children. [/quote]

DP. It calms my fears to put things in statistical perspective. But I also realize it’s almost a guarantee more kids will die from totally preventable shootings (whether a school shooting or the all too common adult who forgot to lock up their gun). It makes me so angry but I have no outlet for that anger. I already vote dem and donate to gun reform organizations. Telling myself, “oh but it likely won’t happen to my kid” helps me function as a parent, but it doesn’t make it any easier to lay my head on my pillow at night thinking, well at least all those dead, shot up kids aren’t mine. I guarantee we’ll wake up again someday this week and there will be another headline about a little body blown to pieces. And the republicans will say it’s not the guns that are the problem. And then what … we just have to keep living like this because half the country is ok voting for sociopaths who are in the pockets of the NRA? [/quote]

In a nutshell, yes. We are a country built on violence with a culture that glorifies violence. Add to that our strong value of individualism above all and you have the present situation. There will have to be a cultural shift for any if this to change, and that will have to come from our children’s generation. I just don’t see an end to it any time soon. [/quote]

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