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Alex Ip 葉清霖
@alexip718.com

The Onion hasn't published a ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens story yet this calendar year. I think they've given up. This country's leaders have failed two generations.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖
@alexip718.com

Statistically, the average American school is the most dangerous educational institution in the developed world, because school shootings mostly don't exist outside of the United States bsky.app/profile/unsu...

Unsubtly@unsubtly.bsky.social

When I’ve expressed the fear I feel when dropping off my kids at school, I’ve had smart people look down at me and say “mm, yes but statistically school is a very safe place ” But the compounding trauma we allow to exist in this country is intolerable.

Emma Dingle
@emmadingle.bsky.social

As a horrified Brit, for all the usual reasons I also have another question. Why schools? Why has shooting up schools specifically become a trend over there? I know other mass shootings happen, but what has caused people to regularly target children and teachers?

Alex Ip 葉清霖
@alexip718.com

If I have to hypothesize two reasons, 1. Children are defenseless and make for easy pickings for some truly sick and deranged murderers 2. Mass shootings happen all the time in all kinds of contexts, but school shootings attract disproportionate media coverage and that's why we hear about them

Alex Ip 葉清霖
@alexip718.com

I disagree with this take. Schools all over the world have cell phone restrictions, but students don't have to call their parents for help, because there are no school shootings! The guns are the problem, and more children will die as long as we allow the Supreme Court to exist in its current form.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖
@alexip718.com

The person who blocked me quoted my post and wrote, "If you believe in taking cell phones from children in schools, think your Soul is rotten to the core and do not believe you are fit for civilized society." I really don't think this is how things work!