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).

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

This is demonstrably false. https://everytownresearch.org/graph/gun-death-vs-motor-vehicle-accident-deaths-since-1999/

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Dp. This is about all of us. The fact of the matter is that, in America, we *could* be victims in a mass shooting. Pp's statical analysis of risk doesn't comfort me. However rare (statistically), the fact remains that mass shootings can and do happen anywhere at any time. Excuse op and me for being upset and wanting to protect our kids.

Some of us care about other people's kids.

Every time something like this happens, you can count on DCUM moms to start posts about how this affects THEM. No thought is ever given to how it affects others.

WTH are you even talking about?

Ignore the troll. She always comments about people being selfish blah blah blah. I have been considering private for a long time. What is even sicker is these shooters killed their own families!

I'm not being a troll. I'm saying what I honestly think. Instead of thinking only of yourself, think about what you can do to help others. Putting your kid in a private schools accomplishes nothing for anyone else, and probably nothing for yourself as well. You're kidding yourself.

So then tell us what to do to “help others.” This impacts ALL OF US. I don’t see how you can possibly think this reaction is selfish.

Private schools have better security, and are often less visible and/or accessible to the public. They are less well known by others who aren't part of the community. There are significantly more adults on campus. It does feel like those factors decrease the likelihood of events like this happening on site.

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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

Actually, for children and teenagers, guns are a much more common cause of death than cars. Mainly because they don't drive themselves anywhere. But still.

Yes, but not guns in schools (thankfully). Don't get me wrong, there are way, way too many guns in this country, and I think most gun owners are irresponsible. But kids aren't more likely to be killed by a gun in school than in a traffic accident.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Dp. This is about all of us. The fact of the matter is that, in America, we *could* be victims in a mass shooting. Pp's statical analysis of risk doesn't comfort me. However rare (statistically), the fact remains that mass shootings can and do happen anywhere at any time. Excuse op and me for being upset and wanting to protect our kids.

Some of us care about other people's kids.

Every time something like this happens, you can count on DCUM moms to start posts about how this affects THEM. No thought is ever given to how it affects others.

WTH are you even talking about?

Ignore the troll. She always comments about people being selfish blah blah blah. I have been considering private for a long time. What is even sicker is these shooters killed their own families!

I'm not being a troll. I'm saying what I honestly think. Instead of thinking only of yourself, think about what you can do to help others. Putting your kid in a private schools accomplishes nothing for anyone else, and probably nothing for yourself as well. You're kidding yourself.

you derailing this thread with your endless dumb nonsense is really moving the needle though! Good job, this is an excellent use of your time and energy. The world thanks you!

+1000 that troll has no life. This is an anonymous forum. The victims aren't in the same room as the OP right now.

There were many factors in our decision to go to a small private. This was definitely one of them. Devastating that it even has to cross our minds. I can't imagine how those families felt waking up today with no child to bring to school 💔

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Oh STFU. We need to protect our kids.

OP, I’m grateful we can send our daughter to a private school. I know they’re not guaranteed to be safe, but for multiple reasons, it’s less likely there will be a shooting at one of them.

No, you STFU. There are 100,000 public schools in this country, and 27,000 private schools. School shootings are rare events at public schools, and even more rare events at private schools, simply because there are more public schools.

This. There are just fewer privates.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Dp. This is about all of us. The fact of the matter is that, in America, we *could* be victims in a mass shooting. Pp's statical analysis of risk doesn't comfort me. However rare (statistically), the fact remains that mass shootings can and do happen anywhere at any time. Excuse op and me for being upset and wanting to protect our kids.

Some of us care about other people's kids.

Every time something like this happens, you can count on DCUM moms to start posts about how this affects THEM. No thought is ever given to how it affects others.

WTH are you even talking about?

Ignore the troll. She always comments about people being selfish blah blah blah. I have been considering private for a long time. What is even sicker is these shooters killed their own families!

I'm not being a troll. I'm saying what I honestly think. Instead of thinking only of yourself, think about what you can do to help others. Putting your kid in a private schools accomplishes nothing for anyone else, and probably nothing for yourself as well. You're kidding yourself.

you derailing this thread with your endless dumb nonsense is really moving the needle though! Good job, this is an excellent use of your time and energy. The world thanks you!

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Anonymous wrote:I am pretty sure that a Private School in DC just had to deal with a sniper, about a month or so ago.

And, statistically speaking here, public schools don't deal with these types of events all that frequently either. They are rare events. rare, awful, soul devastating events.

And did it lead to 19 kids being murdered?

It easily could have. Luckily, it didn’t, but we can’t count on luck.

This isn’t a public v. private thing. This is a violence thing, and it’s just wrong to think privates are any safer.

- private school parent

Anonymous wrote:My kid goes to private school but I’m under no illusion that it’s safer. That school in Texas had an armed security guard. While my child’s school has security, the person isn’t armed.

My kids go to private and both have several armed Police officers on their shared campus and strict security. They are also smaller than public which helps as well. I do feel slightly safer with them there vs public but I’m under no illusion that this could never happen.

We are not in the DC area.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Dp. This is about all of us. The fact of the matter is that, in America, we *could* be victims in a mass shooting. Pp's statical analysis of risk doesn't comfort me. However rare (statistically), the fact remains that mass shootings can and do happen anywhere at any time. Excuse op and me for being upset and wanting to protect our kids.

Some of us care about other people's kids.

Every time something like this happens, you can count on DCUM moms to start posts about how this affects THEM. No thought is ever given to how it affects others.

WTH are you even talking about?

Ignore the troll. She always comments about people being selfish blah blah blah. I have been considering private for a long time. What is even sicker is these shooters killed their own families!

I'm not being a troll. I'm saying what I honestly think. Instead of thinking only of yourself, think about what you can do to help others. Putting your kid in a private schools accomplishes nothing for anyone else, and probably nothing for yourself as well. You're kidding yourself.

Anonymous wrote:I am pretty sure that a Private School in DC just had to deal with a sniper, about a month or so ago.

And, statistically speaking here, public schools don't deal with these types of events all that frequently either. They are rare events. rare, awful, soul devastating events.

And did it lead to 19 kids being murdered?

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Dp. This is about all of us. The fact of the matter is that, in America, we *could* be victims in a mass shooting. Pp's statical analysis of risk doesn't comfort me. However rare (statistically), the fact remains that mass shootings can and do happen anywhere at any time. Excuse op and me for being upset and wanting to protect our kids.

Some of us care about other people's kids.

Every time something like this happens, you can count on DCUM moms to start posts about how this affects THEM. No thought is ever given to how it affects others.

WTH are you even talking about?

Ignore the troll. She always comments about people being selfish blah blah blah. I have been considering private for a long time. What is even sicker is these shooters killed their own families!

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats, OP, for turning this tragedy into being all about you.

Dp. This is about all of us. The fact of the matter is that, in America, we *could* be victims in a mass shooting. Pp's statical analysis of risk doesn't comfort me. However rare (statistically), the fact remains that mass shootings can and do happen anywhere at any time. Excuse op and me for being upset and wanting to protect our kids.

Some of us care about other people's kids.

Every time something like this happens, you can count on DCUM moms to start posts about how this affects THEM. No thought is ever given to how it affects others.

Just stop. That’s a lie. I am confident that pp and op and others posting on this thread are devastated for the parents that are waking up this morning knowing their precious children are gone. Thoughts and a discussion about protecting their own children don’t take away from that.