We do the same thing with school shootings, where we force kids to take place in ‘live shooter drills’ and scare kids so much that they expect a school shooting to happen around them, whereas such things are exceedingly rare,
That year, there were 24 such incidents. There were 25 in 2019.
The UK hasn’t had one since 1992. That’s exceedingly rare.
There are around 250,000 schools in the US. So, that is a .01% chance of an event at your school each year.
With little evidence that the active shooter behaviors actually work.
So it still makes sense to do some thing about the drills and nothing about the shootings … even though the shootings are very frequent compared to other countries. 0.01% is 100 times higher than 0.0001%
The fact about “school shootings” that usually gets ignored in these discussions is that almost none of them are of the type “single shooter trying to inflict mass casualties in a pre-planned attack,” the template that the media treats as prototypical. Those kinds of shootings are exceedingly rare, less than one per year, but they take up almost all of the media coverage.
The shootings that make up the bulk of the 25/year take place in urban schools, almost always involve black or occasionally Hispanic students, and fall under the broad umbrella of gang/drug violence. If you or your children go to a majority white/asian school, your chance of getting involved in a school shooting are lower by a factor of 100.
I was responding to the bit about “active shooter drills”, which are a thing that mostly occur in jittery suburban schools, ie. the kinds of schools least at risk of this kind of thing.
The UK hasn’t had one since 1992. That’s exceedingly rare.
There are around 250,000 schools in the US. So, that is a .01% chance of an event at your school each year. With little evidence that the active shooter behaviors actually work.
So it still makes sense to do some thing about the drills and nothing about the shootings … even though the shootings are very frequent compared to other countries. 0.01% is 100 times higher than 0.0001%
The fact about “school shootings” that usually gets ignored in these discussions is that almost none of them are of the type “single shooter trying to inflict mass casualties in a pre-planned attack,” the template that the media treats as prototypical. Those kinds of shootings are exceedingly rare, less than one per year, but they take up almost all of the media coverage.
The shootings that make up the bulk of the 25/year take place in urban schools, almost always involve black or occasionally Hispanic students, and fall under the broad umbrella of gang/drug violence. If you or your children go to a majority white/asian school, your chance of getting involved in a school shooting are lower by a factor of 100.
Gang type school shootings are also extremely rare in countries with strict gun control. Alongside all other shootings.
I was responding to the bit about “active shooter drills”, which are a thing that mostly occur in jittery suburban schools, ie. the kinds of schools least at risk of this kind of thing.