"School Shooting Season" opens!!!

[Grins]

Or, as it used to be known - "the first day of school".

America!!

[Roland99]

1. Started here 2 weeks ago. Luckily no incidents yet

[Claritie Pixie]

2. This is unnecessary.

[Bettie]

3. And yet, it is

true.

The first day of school is way more frightening that it used to be for parents.

[Aristus]

4. I agree. We've gone from "Is he going to come home with some damned thing I have to sign?"

to

"Is he going to come home?"

[aikoaiko]

6. Statistically there is little reason to be afraid.

And I'm a parent. The Availability Heuristic, however, is a powerful thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/arts/neil-degrasse-tyson-el-paso.html

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. More people need...

https://www.theskepticsguide.org/

The book is excellent. https://www.theskepticsguide.org/our-book

[Bettie]

10. I've been on the losing end of

statistics too many times in my life to ever assume that everything will be OK.

Yeah, probably safe here, but the fact is that it is very likely that there will be another school shooting. Might not be my kid, but it will be someone's kid, someone's partner, parent, friend, or whatever.

[Claritie Pixie]

12. School Shooting Season? Really?

We don't need to call it that. There's a better way to make the point.

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. Well, it SHOULD be unnecesary,

but thanks to Wayne ThePeter and his ilk, it's just another 9-month season. Gunhumping crazies probably mark it on their calendars next to deer and turkey seasons

[blaze]

7. Not when "shooter drill" is part of the first day of school. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

9. As A Sub...

...since I retired, I did my first day last Wednesday. (High School)
First thing school secretary did was give me the lock down procedure, asked me to read & sign it.
I was there because regular teacher took daughter to first day of 1st grade.
So kids were on their second full day, and I had to sign that procedure.
So, I'm with you.

[Joe941]

11. This post is in bad taste. Was this needed?

[Blue_true]

13. Well, I hope you at least bought a kid a bulletproof backpack.

There is nothing more inspiring than watching a seven year old kid Jedi away bullets from an assault weapon.

Seriously, anyone who thinks a kid with a backpack will survive being shot at by a maniac is not playing with a full load. But parents are grabbing onto anything in our insane gun culture.