It’s coming down hard here in Wales
Today sucked. I was alone all day. The cat broke a wine glass. Nobody wanted to talk to me. To top all that off, I haven’t eaten or had a moment to myself because I had to babysit this damn cat who’s determined to remove this plastic cone if it means destroying the entire house.
Unlike all of you antisocial assholes, I cannot bear being all by myself in the silence. My mind starts to wage war against me. My depression comes back in force. Being alone is bad for my health
In a country that has zero tolerance on bullying, the Democrats feel as if that doesn’t apply to them.
School Shooting Stats
So I keep seeing people make jabs about kids being more likely to die in a school shooting than other things, blah blah, and so I did the math, excluding definite gang shootings, excluding the shooter’s death, and excluding any victims not on school campus (trying to stick with just rampage shooters, and only those killed on campus, since the argument is so many kids die on campus)
Either way, total number of deaths between 2010 and 2018 to date (3/8/2018) is 114 people. 64 of those were 18 or under. That averages to about 8 students dying by gunfire on a school campus per year, or 14 people in general on a school campus per year.
More than 9,000 children die per year from injuries (unintentional accidents are the leading cause of deaths in children). Hundreds under the age of 16 are killed by gang activity.
The reason people freak out about school shootings, despite only an average of 0.0000043% of the US population getting killed on campus every year, is because it’s so rare. You don’t hear about the gang shootings because they happen all the time. There are many children who have been killed in my area alone that never make the news past a small blip on the local sites.
School shootings just seem scarier, especially with all the media hype and schools furthering their lockdown methods (which is fine, I’m all for more protection in the schools, especially in areas like mine). But really, the chances of being a victim of a school shooting is insignificant compared to everything else. You’re more likely to be murdered in the UK than be shot in a school in the US.
Year – victims (under 18)
2010 – 4 (1)
2011 – 3 (0)
2012 – 38 (31)
2013 – 8 (4)
2014 – 10 (7)
2015 – 16 (0)
2016 – 3 (2)
2017 – 10 (4)
2018 – 22 (15)Great post.
Unpopular opinion: We shouldn’t dedicate days, weeks, or months to a certain race/gender/sexuality. We’re all human. In my opinion these things can be somewhat divisive. Just celebrate being human and alive! It is so rare that we exist.
Two and a half weeks of good days came to an end today
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