Timothy Birdnow

According to ChatGPT the number of kids out of the total school population who are murdered annually in school shootings is 0.00008%, which in the vernacular is "eighty millionths of one percent.”

So this is not the problem the media makes it out to be.

And it most definitely is not an issue requiring we surrender the Second Amendment over.

There are other, better solutions. Have armed school personnell. Have armed security. Don't mention the name of the shooter, especially if underage. Call them a murderer and not "shooter". Restore societal disapproval. For that matter, try restoring God to schools with a return to a moment of prayer at the beginning of the school day.

We kicked God out of the schools. Any wonder the schools have become the haven of - something else?

One of the big problems is schools are soft targets, being almost always "gun free zones". It's like posting that a bank will not allow any guns on the premesis. You are guaranteeing a stickup.

In point of fact since 2000 to 2020 there have been just 131 deaths from school shootings, meaning six a year on average. Compared to the number of shootings in Chicago or st. Louis or other high crime cities this is a small number. Compared to shootings in places like Brazil, which has the toughest gun control laws on Earth, it is lilliputian (Brazil has the highest rate of gun violence on Earth despite the strictest gun control laws.)

Yes, any children murdered is a travesty and cause for concern. But just "doing something" to solve a minor problem is foolish and likely to cause worse problems in the future.

The gun control lobby knows this too. This has never been about public safety. The Democrats rush to the microphones every time there is a school shooting, dancing on the graves of dead children in their quest to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. Gun control only benefits the criminals and the State. They know it too.

Guns were guaranteed by our Founding Fathers to provide a way for the citizenry to rebel against a tyrannical government. It had nothing to do with hunting or even self-defense. They know THIS too.

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