It's important, though almost impossible, to talk about this issue rationally. People are bad at estimating risks in the best circumstances, and risks to children are even more difficult to be unemotional about, and look at with distance and logic.

I think the media coverage of them does nothing to help us do that, though it should.

But the fact is that school shootings are not the risks you should be worrying about when it comes to your kids. Despite media coverage, they are not common, and not getting more common over time. The number of kids who die in school shootings every year is vanishing small, compared to the many who die from other things we could be preventing. They're lower than deaths from disease, and domestic violence, and deaths from traffic accidents, and suicide. It's hard to overstate just how much lower.

I think we'd all agree that those issues need solutions. School shootings also need a solution, but in a world of limited resources, including attention, which of these should we focus on first? How do we select? I say it should be done according to which one presents the most risk — the highest likelihood, and greatest impact — and by any calculus that is not school shootings.

This is a really good article for putting school shootings in context: https://archive.ph/GmLdD

I guess nobody really wants to solve this problem. Number of responses on this thread shows truly how many people truly care about gun violence and mass shootings.

If not enough majority people care to fix this issue then it will be part of life and just need to learn to live with it. Just like being careful and defensive driver while driving on road.

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