I’ve seen this BS statement popping up on gun sites. Just another bullshit comparison made up to minimize a problem. Funny how they limit it just to schools as an arbitrary limit while ignoring things like workplace shootings or terrorist attacks like the shooters at concerts or clubs.
All shootings of uninvolved, random people.
And the principle of the comparison is stupid. You go out to play golf knowing there is bad weather and elect not to take suitable shelter vs a teacher in a location that should never see violence. E: more apt comparison: how many people are killed in school classrooms by lightning? That’s how absurd it is.
Yeah, we’ve already covered that you don’t like hearing about the consequences of your hobby, keep it up and I’ll call you a “snowflake”.
No, most deaths by gun are suicides. Nearly 60%. Gang homocide only accounts for ~30% of gun deaths. The rest are non-gang, police, accident, or defense.
Media doesn’t want to talk about gang violence? Don’t know what planet you’re on, but local news always mentions whether or not the shooting was likely gang related.
I’m tired of this conversation. You plainly are willing to sacrifice anyone else or butwhatabout any other subject in order to avoid dealing with the reality of guns in this country. IDGAF about your “right” when you treat it irresponsibly enough that infringes on others’ right to life. And I say that as a gun owner. You sick guns-at-any-price morons have done more to destroy a fun pastime than anything I can imagine.
Lol bro only country where school shootings happens as frequently as weekly is the U.S.A.
Wow, thanks, I feel so reassured now that I know that one of the most common, terrifying, and harmful acts of nature recorded in human history only causes slightly more damage than school shootings, without accounting for the age demographic of the victims of either.
Where do you get your numbers?
CDC states about 28 deaths per year by lightning strike. https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata/infographic.html
22 deaths can be attributed to the shooting in Uvalde alone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2022
“There’s been an on-campus shooting ‘pretty much every single school day’ this fall, the founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database said.” https://www.k12dive.com/news/2022-worst-year-for-school-shootings/639313/
“You’re more likely to be killed by a hippo in Africa than you are by a school shooting in the US”.
The comparison is made up because it’s convenient. They might as well have compared school shootings to worldwide hippopotamus attacks (~500 year), it’s every bit as pointless.
To protect your schools, huh? How’s that going for you?
The right suggests guns to protect schools (guards, teachers, parents) from shooters. Is it the left that wants thoughts and prayers?
The guns are always there, the guns were plentiful in Uvalde, pissing their little baby clips like cowards because “capital protecting” violence is the long arm of the limp dick.
Leftists are not anti gun. They just prefer the guns not pointed at a family of four trying to cross the border, not pointed at gay or trans loved ones, not pointed at someone stealing food while intimately oil massaging the back of wage theft
The thing I love about religion is that there are thousands of them, yet yours is the correct one? Those are pretty low odds.
Yeah… “thousands of them” is overexaggerated. That being said, there have been a lot of faiths, myths, and mysticism throughout human history..
Here’s an interesting timeline of belief systems.
I grew up Mormon and had a hard time believing that we were the “true church,” “taught the true teachings.,” etc., when I learned about how many different current and old religions and beliefs people had throughout human history. Cracks started to form in my faith foundation then. The following thoughts throw me for a loop back then. Exibit A. Exibit B. Exibit C.
Both the Tree of Religion and the Religion Timeline use Common Era as their year notation.
That timeline leaves off The Babis, The Baha’is, The Mormons, and tons of fracturing among Christians and Muslims, that I am aware of.
It also ignores Shintoism, Daoism, and the other far eastern belief systems.
Also I am intentionally not counting Scientology, because that was a bet.
There are over 40,000 sects of christianity last I knew. I’m going to say thousands isn’t an overexageration. I won’t consider religions the same if they have different beliefs.
Part of it is probably what determines what counts as “a religion.” My mind went to indigenous groups in the Americas, Australia, and Africa - thousands seems appropriate there!
Historically, religions as practiced on the ground were very syncretistic - like in the late medieval Muslim world, a Christian might carry a verse from the Koran as a charm or Muslim might visit a rabbi. Not to say that there wasn’t religious persecution and attempts by religious authorities to make sure that everyone was following the rules, but the species of religious fundamentalism we see today is a product of the 19th century and widespread literacy.
Even within a modern Protestant church of a specific denomination, there’s probably a mix of people who are universalists, into spiritualism, etc.
I don’t really think religions can be considered discrete in a way that one could report “there are X religions in the world.”
Do you happen to know where a higher resolution version of this image is?
I am not very knowledgeable about religion but that chart buckets European Animism as one “Religion” while I think it was not organized and refers to the disparate beliefs of folks in the area at the time, so one could argue that there were lots of version I think.
Regardless really fascinating info.
Dude more than half of the population on thr planet are asians… and last time I saw, the Chinese main religion is not christianity
I have no idea
Christianity. … 31% Islam…24.9 % Unaffiliated… 15.6 % Hinduism… 15.2 % Buddhism… 6.6 %
… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations
Honestly, I think the variant on it, Pascal’s mugging, evidences why it’s nonsense as well.
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