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A comment on Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015). Parent comment

Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by zmgsabst on Thursday May 26, 2022 @10:31AM (#31518783)
> In particular kids should definitely be safer from gun violence than a police officer. That seems like a reasonable goal?

No…? Why would comparing vastly different groups be “reasonable”?

Also, they are on a per capita basis: there’s a lot more school children than police officers.

By about two orders of magnitude (50M children to 600k officers).

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by meheleventyone on Saturday May 28, 2022 @05:27AM (#31538889)
So you’re saying it’s perfect reasonable for more kids to be violently shot to death than police? On the whole my expectation is that the officers should be protecting the kids but this attitude certainly explains the behaviour of the officers on the day.
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