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There have been at least 50 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of September 19. Thirteen were on college campuses, and 37 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left 24 people dead and at least 66 other victims injured, according to CNN’s analysis of events reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety.

https://www.cnn.com/us/school-shootings-fast-facts-dg/index.html

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

they don't care about kids. they don't care about life. they care about controlling women. I first heard George Carlin say "pro-life is just anti-woman" when i was a kid, and didn't really understand very well. but now it's so clear.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Wait until they hear about the dozens of schools bombed in palestine as part of usa sponsored genocide.

Violence is deeply instilled and normalized in the history, culture and especially the state of our genocidal society.

[-] Hellsfire29@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Maybe parents should raise their kids with dignity and respect and a dose of responsibility, maybe we can kill 2 birds with one stone.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I like how America's culture comes up to putting angry messages on cars.

[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Roads lead to road rage
Road rage leads to other kinds of rage

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 5 points 17 hours ago

We're forced to have cars because we've been denied effective public transportation, even in metropolitan areas.

[-] Juigi@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Many people in the comments trying to downplay the amount, america is truly fucked

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

Let me make two notes:

A "school shooting" is any time a gun goes off on any school grounds. You can go to the elementary soccer field and put one in the ground at midnight, "school shooting". Mass shootings are not what you picture in your mind when that word comes up.

https://imgur.com/2prD6rU

The Gun Violence Archive and Everytown for Gun Safety are two of the most biased sources related to guns.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

hahaha this guy's like "if you just shoot and injure 4 people but can't definitively kill them, is that even a shooting?"

good note on the school thing though. I'm totally going to a parent who lost their child playing soccer in school and telling them "well they weren't inside the classroom; you didn't expect them to be safe anywhere in school, didya?"

Only 50? IIRC that's a marked improvement from recent previous years.

[-] daellat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Perhaps people conflate mass shootings with school shootings

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Recent years have been wildly exaggerated. This is a frighteningly real number.

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[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

They're going to scapegoat people with mental illness and start taking their rights away more and more. Then they'll start using that to target people they don't like. Take certain prescriptions? Now you're on the "dangerous person's list" now "dangerous people" can't hold certain jobs or public office. Been put on a "mental health" hold by the police ever? Same thing. Then the police can just use their "discretion" to put anyone they don't like on a mental health hold. LGBT? That means you're "mentally unhealthy" don't believe in God? Believe it or not "mental health problems" not Republican? Only a psycho believes in dirty socialism. Brown skin? (Insert racist stuff about inferior brain power) Now, of course we can't allow the "mentally unhealthy people" to procreate! So we'll have to sterilize them. Of course they can't be trusted, so we'll need to supervise them at all times! Work is good for mental health so we can give them "jobs" at the "mental health" camps!

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca -1 points 14 hours ago

I get what you're trying to say but you're quite far on a Fantasy path there. Yeah, the US has some fucked up rules and yeah, there are fucked up people wanting fucked up control over others, but you're talking Nazi Germany here

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

The police have access to warrantless tracking information on you through private companies in the form of license plate readers. Is a slow boil, but we'll get there soon enough.

[-] jzzvid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

Going to? The US has been doing that since the day it gained its independence.

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 76 points 2 days ago

I believe the kids say "based".

[-] Wrench@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I think those kids are drinking age now

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[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago

I know the answer to all this. we just need more fetuses with guns.

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