Back in 1970, when bombs were the rage. I was in a bomb scare at my night school. There was no bomb, there was no explosion. No one was killed, no one was injured. I didn’t attend 17 funerals the next week. I didn’t visit 13 people torn to shreds in the hospital.
I still remember that long walk out of the school like it was yesterday. Walking quickly. Wondering if each trash can was going to explode. 50 years ago and still very crisp.
Now the RKBA remnants are attacking with bogus calm down statistics.
They want us to remember.
1. the number of school shooting incidents
2. the number of schools
3. the number of children in schools not affected
They are acting like parimutuel betting windows for sending your kids to school.
There are approximately 130,000 K12 schools in the US. If we take your number of 152 projected shooting incidents for 2017 that would place the annual odds that any one school would have an active shooter to be about 1/10 of 1%.
So the RKBA want us to remember the small number killed, the larger number wounded. But they want us to forget the number of school shooting survivors.
How would you calculate that?
The number of children who ran from a school during a mass murder event? The number of children who met their parents in an alternative location during a mass murder event? The number of children who hid from a mass murder roaming the hallways in their school? The number of children who heard bullets whiz by their heads?
RKBA plays with statistics. They would say only the kids who were splashed with actual blood would count.
I get real tired of the gun hobby people swaggering in and being so statistical. God, I have been hearing that for so many years.
The tide has turned. The thousands of survivors count and count like nobody’s business. NRA is melting.