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Far higher chance you’ll die on the way to school in a car accident.

School shootings are to the left what terrorist attacks are to the right —- fear-mongering over an ultimately rare and insignificant problem to drive desired policy change.



Insane.

School shootings are genuinely frightful, not the subject of artificial fear-mongering.

This shallow and ideological analysis represents such a callous disregard for the trauma that any child would experience is they had to go through that.


> School shootings are genuinely frightful, not the subject of artificial fear-mongering.

Terrorist attacks are genuinely terrifying. That doesn't mean the probability of experiencing one isn't vanishingly small.


My biggest fear is my kids dying in a car accident. I'd really prefer not to have to worry about school shootings on top of that, even if they are less likely.




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