The problem is that there are 100 articles exaggerating the issue for every 1 that uses common sense to debunk it. If 100 people yell that it's raining and 1 person says "Look up, the sun is shining." People will still grab an umbrella.
I left both graphics in the quote to illustrate why its important to be clear about statistics (sorry, a bit of a pet peeve of mine).
The first appears to be a percentage. The actual US population, therefore objective number of households, is increasing. So, to hold the same percentage of households (roughly) having firearms requires the objective number of households with firearms to increase in roughly the same proportion as the population at large.
So, I humbly submit that the assertion that it is existing firearms owners buying more is probably inaccurate. It is those "new" members of the population starting households and having guns. Now, MAYBE if you count children being raised in gun-owning households purchasing their own guns, it makes sense. But, I think it is more accurate that as some people decline to buy guns although they were raised in gun-owning households (which does happen, and the gravestone of John Moses Browning sheds a tear each time that happens), a non-gun-owning household decides to switch sides.
If that first graph is in raw numbers, like millions or something, then you may be right. But, if it is, I'm afraid that might be signaling the marginalization of gun owning households.
I love the stats that support the second graph. I included that one just for kicks.
And now I received a message that there was a non credible threat made against Noblesville High School for tomorrow. Two students overheard a conversation on the bus ride home today and used the confidential reporting app on the Pad to report the student making a threat. The school and NPD have made contact with that student. I am guessing that after the interview a determination was made that there was no real threat. The app is called Speak Up. The message continues to urge students to speak up and praised the two that reported the conversation.
Irvington Prep Academy had a threat a couple of weeks ago. School Resource Officer was made aware, he contacted IMPD and the threat was contained before anything happened.
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Seems like most of the social media I’m seeing has turned from “reasonable” legislation to “**** it, just take all the guns away.”
https://www.infowars.com/far-left-g...icans-as-revenge-for-florida-school-shooting/
Twitter harassing a parent that lost his daughter in this shooting for supporting Trump, unreal.
No, not really. We'll get spikes here and there, but overall we're declining. And as older generations die off that will further continue the decline. Even for "new" owners, our ideas aren't exactly automatically adopted by them. And the periodic gun crazes we see, I seriously doubt people are buying ARs; during panics they seem to buy handguns, while the old heads are the ones buying up the RRAs/DDs/Colts etc.
Curious about where school shootings occur as we look for a common theme beyond a gun, a bullied kid, young male, prescription drugs...
Have any of the 18(?) or prior years shootings occurred in private schools? Seems like it is typically a public school so could that be part of the problem?
A private school can kick out Billy Butthead long before he gets to the killing stage. Are there other differences between public and private schools that make the private schools less prone to attacks?
Curious about where school shootings occur as we look for a common theme beyond a gun, a bullied kid, young male, prescription drugs...
Have any of the 18(?) or prior years shootings occurred in private schools? Seems like it is typically a public school so could that be part of the problem?
A private school can kick out Billy Butthead long before he gets to the killing stage. Are there other differences between public and private schools that make the private schools less prone to attacks?
Although I'm curious about the public/private school thing, the results aren't really helpful.
Public schools, by law usually, are limited in "kicking" a kid out. They can send them to different levels of school or something, but a complete expulsion from an entire school system is extraordinarily rare (based on info I have from attorneys involved in this sort of thing). They just can't do it.
So, they play a shell game with problematic kids and shuffle them around until they "graduate." That also means that there's almost always going to be a public school they either attend or recently attended.
Private schools don't have to deal with that. They can really expel.