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Re:Homeschooling as a right, and a needed practical alternative by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 02, 2016 @01:13PM (#13090874)
> School shooters typically kill themselves or are killed.

Mass shooters, yes. Two kids exchanging fire in the parking lot? Not so much.

Note well: When I was in school, we never had a shooting, so my statement is unsupported by firsthand evidence.

Re:Homeschooling as a right, and a needed practical alternative by throwaway729 on Friday December 02, 2016 @01:43PM (#13091125)
> Two kids exchanging fire in the parking lot? Not so much.

Uh, no. Discharging fire arms at or around a school is taken incredibly seriously pretty much universally. Doing something like this would be more than enough for hard jail time.

This happened at my school while I was in high school (late at night, and had nothing to do with school -- it was just a shooting that by pure chance happened to take place right next to the school -- neither of the people involved were from the community or even school aged). There was a huge police investigation and the shooter was caught within days of the shooting.

e: If you think "two kids exchanging fire in the parking lot" is an example of tolerated behavior at schools, you should take it as an indication that you have a wildly inaccurate mental model of what schools are like.

Re:Homeschooling as a right, and a needed practical alternative by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 02, 2016 @03:22PM (#13091949)
Tolerated? No. You'd have to figure out who did it, though. (Maybe it's easier now. Back in my day, there weren't a lot of security cameras...)