I can respect that some people's hesitations are based on a true concern of government overreach.
But that's an argument being hijacked by the very people profiting from the present system. The people who originated these arguments did so as propaganda to keep things exactly as they are. They have a financial incentive built in to keep the status quo. They sell guns, people shoot those guns, people get scared and buy more guns. All the while gun manufacturers have lobbied to never be held accountable for their role in marketing this cycle.
We can't continue to use fear mongering to prevent us from reforming the current system. Continuing in this manner is the textbook definition of insanity. We have to find a way beyond this.
There's approximately 50 million kids in public schools from pre-K through 12 and approx 5 million in private schools.
Over the last 50 years that data has been compiled, there have been 167 mass shootings. Of those shootings only 7.6%, or 13 (rounded up from 12.692) happened in a k-12 school over the course of 50 years.
The majority of those 13 school mass shootings occurred within the last 10-12 years.
All in all, maybe 200 kids were killed over the course of 50 years from mass shootings.
Fear mongering would be taking the
13 K-12 school mass shootings where maybe 200 kids have died that happened over the last
50 years in a country with over 50 million students in public and private schools on a daily basis and stoking panic in people to make them believe that the problem is far worse than it actually is and the solution to something that, in all honesty, doesn't really happen too often is to ban guns. Millions of children woke up this morning and went to school in complete safety. We know of
three that didn't. I'm quite sure more died as a result of some street shit (i.e. Chicago, LA, Miami, NYC shit), but as far as mass shootings are concerned they're a statistically rare no matter how you want to spin the shit.
School shootings are still tragic, and it's true that no child should ever die like that, but don't use that to push a political agenda that quite literally won't stop them from happening.