There were 327 school shootings in the 2021-22 school year in the US. That’s more shootings than there are days in a school year. If we had an event wherein a known serial killer publicly tried to murder someone literally every day, reckon folks would be a might bit more concerned about it?
What I’m saying is this is a silly comparison for you to make.
And in that example, people would still be foolish to panic.
The US is a nation that covers half a continent and has a third of a billion people. The lifetime odds of getting murdered by a stranger versus literally any other way to die?
Any person who rides in an automobile runs a greater risk of death. If you’re not clutching at your sheets in terror at the thought of getting in a car, you shouldn’t worry about getting killed by a random person.
“shooting my gun into the air actually poses a statistically insignificant risk to the public at large, so no sane person would REALLY be worried about falling bullets.”
Who are you to police other people’s concern anyway? I’d bet not a parent!
And I’m saying most level-headed people don’t worry about school shootings.
While I’m sure other parents do worry about that, they’re also the kind of people who worry about serial killers.
If you go around invalidating common experiences, expect not to be well received
If somebody worries about serial killers they have an objectively bad grasp on reality.
There were 327 school shootings in the 2021-22 school year in the US. That’s more shootings than there are days in a school year. If we had an event wherein a known serial killer publicly tried to murder someone literally every day, reckon folks would be a might bit more concerned about it?
What I’m saying is this is a silly comparison for you to make.
And in that example, people would still be foolish to panic.
The US is a nation that covers half a continent and has a third of a billion people. The lifetime odds of getting murdered by a stranger versus literally any other way to die?
Any person who rides in an automobile runs a greater risk of death. If you’re not clutching at your sheets in terror at the thought of getting in a car, you shouldn’t worry about getting killed by a random person.
“shooting my gun into the air actually poses a statistically insignificant risk to the public at large, so no sane person would REALLY be worried about falling bullets.”
Who are you to police other people’s concern anyway? I’d bet not a parent!
Oh no, you described cause and effect! It has nothing to do with what I said, but it’s truly devastating.
Lemmy is full of raving lunatics.
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