(February 16, 2018 at 4:27 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(February 16, 2018 at 3:24 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Nowhere did I say any rate was okay. My point is that introducing exaggerated claims, or conflating accidents and suicides in with shooting, does nothing to advance the conversation.
That depends on which conversation you want to have, no?
Well, we're in a thread about school shootings, rather than accidents or suicides.
(February 16, 2018 at 4:27 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Any of those 3 categories have a high incidence exactly due to the wide availability of guns.
Accidents with firearms rarely happen in Europe. Suicides, too... and, of course, shootings.
Well, yeah. You may or may not have read my previous post about what I'd do to address these sorts of shootings by limiting some access to guns.