Why do you think there are so many school shootings now?
Also, seems these significant news events always occur shortly after the release of damning evidence against Democrats.
The notion that there's been hundreds of school shootings is based on highly suspect, and disingenuous, data metric gathering standards. Much like classifying a hanging suicide as firearms related because police found an unloaded handgun in a nearby dresser drawer.
Morey Junior High School, 1961. 2 killed.
William Reed School, 1960. 3 killed. (Principal was the shooter)
Alexander School, 1951. 2 killed.
Williams College, 1936. 2 killed, 1 injured.
Parson Hill School House, 1891. 14 injured.
Highly suspect? People were shot and killed/injured at school or at a school event. Furthermore, school is simply supposed to be teaching. But Im guessing you would prefer rightist, ideological dogma.
Of course, reading, writing and arithmetic are pretty much no-brainers. But the original post, as you point out, only asks about the last few decades. That would indicate a lack of understanding of history and context about the nature of school shootings, or spree shootings in general. Your response would indicate the same.
Our children should be as well educated as possible. On as many topics as possible. As I wrote previously, ignorance breeds violence. The irony of the explosion of the access to mass information for the majority of people (really, starting with television and then the development of the internet) is that it has made our society far more ignorant, as a whole.
It’s easy to cherry pick the information you consume (don’t like it, change the channel/web page). And people confuse the consumption of more information with the acquisition of knowledge.
Your short list has inconsistencies compared to the list I found. For example, there was one student killed, not two, in the Morey Junior High School incident. (October 17, 1961 Denver, Colorado Tennyson Beard, 14, got into an argument with William Hachmeister, 15, at Morey Junior High School. During the argument Beard pulled out a .38 caliber revolver and shot at Hachmeister, wounding him. A stray bullet also struck Deborah Faith Humphrey, 14, who died from her gunshot wound.) Here's the link: https://www.k12academics.com/school-shootings/history-school-shootings-united-states
There's a few items that are interesting to note within this list.
1. The majority of attacks during this time period (1800's) by students on other students or teacher, usually involved stabbing with knives, or hitting with stones.
2. There are very seldom reports of mass or multiple school shootings during the first three decades of the 20th Century, with the three most violent attacks on schools involving either arson or explosions.
To clarify a point, I'm advocating that the public schools shouldn't be pushing any agenda, left or right.
Now for the main part. The original post seemingly advocates a need for further controls to firearms access. Noteworthy though, is how, after increased measures to limit firearms form schools, little has been affected. This is like noticing your cars' oil gauge fluctuating. You check the oil level, notice it's at the lower part of the indicator on the dipstick, so you add oil. But the oil gauge still fluctuates. The logical person looks at a possible bad oil pump. The gun control advocate consistently adds more oil, never solving the root cause of the problem.
History of School Shootings in the United States | K12 Academics
1700s The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children (reports vary).
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PAozAAAAIBAJ&pg=4617,710365
While I haven’t previously seen this particular list, it too, has some peculiarities. It mentions that most attacks were were stabbing or stories. But it really only lists shootings. Also, it mentions that the worst attacks were arson or explosions. Interesting. (Let’s hope our kids don’t graduate from shootings to making HME and planting’s IEDs). Regardless, this could simply mean that they used what was available to them. Put those same people in our society today, and they’d use ARs. Put our modern rampage shooters in that era, and they would simply use knives, stones or arson.
Now, for the main part. The main post had nothing to do with advocating for gun control. He posted, “We all know that guns can’t shoot themselves, so obviously that is not the problem in my opinion. I honestly believe that there is a direct correlation between the rise of school shootings and the taking of God out of the classroom, and kids not getting a well deserved a** whooping”.
It seems the main post advocated more of a religious ideology being taught in schools. As if that would somehow alleviate school shootings. As if there is a correlation to taking god out of the classroom and school shootings going up.
My point is that there has always been and will continue to be violence. Even in schools. In response to your thoughts, I originally brought up that Jefferson was a proponent of Islam and certainly didn’t fear it. (Which you’ve not responded to). Fear breeds ignorance. And ignorance breeds violence. I’ve repeatedly stated that despite having access that the collective knowledge of the history of the world, our society is becoming increasingly fearful, thus increasingly ignorant, thus increasingly violent.
I don’t support more gun control. Getting rid of pencils won’t eliminate spelling errors, right? I do, however, advocate more education and knowledge. And when you write, “...LGBTQ...XYZ, gender identity, Islam, Climate Change "science," and other forms of indoctrination”, it indicates that you don’t view those as legitimate topics. Which is unfortunate.
Because understanding the science of climate change is more important than having god in the class room. Understanding Islam (which is different than being indoctrinated. But there are over a billion Muslims in the world. It’s a good idea to know about them) is probably important. Not understanding Islam is one of the reasons we’ve been fighting (almost to a standstillat this point) for decades.
Knowledge. Education. If even to debate the side you’re arguing against, it’s better to know about something than not know. Again, fear breeds ignorance. Ignorance breeds violence.
Interestingly, I once read that the children of Jews were most likely to fall under the pall of cults because Jewish parents hid their religion out of fear of reprisal. Their children were thus open to the siren song of the cults. Is it possible that we see the same thing playing out among other American families who have abandoned traditional values? Have terrorists organizations taken up the role that religious cults once played?
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It reminds me of a couple of X-files episodes where that very phenomenon was observed. Kids want to belong to something. There are those out there who will fill the void.
Just my OPINION of course BUT; I believe, not as the media states, but a more realistic idea that "They are not as mentally ill" as many in media portray but This is direct action for the left to take over our society. When we have mothers and fathers claiming that their son or daughter should not have been SHOT while they were Robbing (or committing any crime with a weapon) we are sending more of that message that OUR RIGHTS as Law Abiding Citizens are Less (or dont even exist) when compared to select Criminals. Is this what we are to believe?
A parent can teach their child everything right but society and the will teach them everything else. I’m from the city where school shooting first started happening in the 90’s and from then on it got worst.
The sad part about the shooting is we can really stop them if they injury 1 student or kill 20 we can’t stop them cause school are public and no behind a wall all the time. Since I been a police officer people always ask why the police Wasn’t there but we can’t be everywhere. If I’m on one side of the building then who on the other side?
We need to bring back discipline and get rid of these electronics devices and actually talk and teach out youths!
I think society is what "WE" allow it to be or make it. Comes back to us....
It is quite simple .. WE KNOW IT IS WRONG, WE COMPLAIN BUT DO LITTLE OR NOTHING TO CHANGE IT.... It is our fault.
~ole Sarge~
When you start to think the world is a more violent place than it used to be, ask yourself when was the last time someone was drawn and quartered or burned at the stake? The amplification of information may make it seem like the world is growing more violent, but it actually isn't. I recommend reading: Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence had Declined by Steven Pinker as some good reading material on the subject.
So, there's one of us running for office... and running 22 miles per day he says.
Well, that's a lot of time too think I suppose.