My point is culture. Our new mayor appears capable. For once a politician who says he is not going to fix violence overnight that has grown over decades. He talks about the root source, socical and economic conditions.Anyone can call in a threat. That requires a phone. Actual bombs in schools, extraordinarily rare.Yet another school closure around here over a bomb threat. Yesterday a kid in a school parking lot started shooting at cars. Anybody really think it is just about availability of guns?
But still historically low. You keep screaming the sky is falling. Meanwhile a bunch of children died in a classroom, and the GOP doesn't want to address it for fear of angering the NRA.The proposed legislation is not worth the paper it is written on.
Shootings have been way up in Seattle so far this year.
Can we at least stop mass slaughters? Is this really that much to ask?
It is not 'historically low'. Certainly not in King county, Seattle, and Washington. Similar reports from elsewhere.
It is not whether a bomb threat to a scj=hol is real or not, it is about the rise in thrats and actual school violence.
If I use your reasoning you are more likely to be killed or injured by a drunk driver than by a mas shooting, therefore mass shootings are not really a problem.
Culture has gotten crude and coarse. It is on TV, in movies, and in music.
I hear it around Seattle on the streets. A tone of violence has crept into speech. Not just the crazies, regular people.
I agree culture is one of the problems. The second amendment is viewed as a right to arm the people against themselves rather than protection from a government that turned towards tyranny. That is definitely a cultural problem.