Dumb question?

[nikolai_42]

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why do all (or most of) these crises that are supposed to provide the proof that we need greater gun control seem to happen at schools?

 

[genuineoriginal]

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why do all (or most of) these crises that are supposed to provide the proof that we need greater gun control seem to happen at schools?

Here is a list of 10 of the recent mass shootings in the U.S.

• Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
• Las Vegas shooting
• Sutherland Springs church shooting
• Orlando nightclub shooting
• San Bernardino attack
• Umpqua Community College shooting
• Washington Navy Yard shooting
• Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
• Aurora shooting
• Binghamton shootings

Only a few of them happened in a school.
The school shootings are just more memorable because they involve children.

 

[nikolai_42]

Here is a list of 10 of the recent mass shootings in the U.S.

• Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
• Las Vegas shooting
• Sutherland Springs church shooting
• Orlando nightclub shooting
• San Bernardino attack
• Umpqua Community College shooting
• Washington Navy Yard shooting
• Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
• Aurora shooting
• Binghamton shootings

Only a few of them happened in a school.
The school shootings are just more memorable because they involve children.

It just seems to me that the most political hay is made out of school shootings - when those are the situations in which it is most likely that no one is armed. There are other incidents - to be sure - but unless Pandora's box can be closed and the knowledge and ability to create and use guns can be done away with, doesn't the logical response seem to be allowing more people to be armed (but trained and trustworthy)? Most mass shootings take place in places where most people are not ready to respond to others who want to use guns recklessly. Restricting gun ownership even further only further increases the number of people who are vulnerable to those who will do whatever it takes to get a weapon and use it to its full effect.

 

[genuineoriginal]

It just seems to me that the most political hay is made out of school shootings - when those are the situations in which it is most likely that no one is armed. There are other incidents - to be sure - but unless Pandora's box can be closed and the knowledge and ability to create and use guns can be done away with, doesn't the logical response seem to be allowing more people to be armed (but trained and trustworthy)? Most mass shootings take place in places where most people are not ready to respond to others who want to use guns recklessly. Restricting gun ownership even further only further increases the number of people who are vulnerable to those who will do whatever it takes to get a weapon and use it to its full effect.

Yep