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American parents, how big a concern are school shootings for you? (feddit.org)
submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@feddit.org to c/AskUSA@discuss.online
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Bringing this topic up in the context of the latest school shooting in Wisconsin

Article with some data for 2024: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/us-school-shootings-2024-in-numbers/104734714

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not a parent, but this is one of the reasons why.

Tbh though, not a huge reason, more of a minor contributing factor - a shooting happening at the school / specific part of the school your kid is in is pretty low odds... it's more the general state of resulting school culture and prison-like security that's damaging to the average student.

And shootings are a pretty small slice of the pie against things like the surge of popularity in Nazi shit, or our climate trending rapidly toward not supporting human life.

We've made Earth into a pretty non-ideal place to raise a child.