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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.8a602c70d206

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    Everytown has long inflated its total by including incidents of gunfire that are not really school shootings. Take, for example, what it counted as the year’s first: On the afternoon of Jan. 3, a 31-year-old man who had parked outside a Michigan elementary school called police to say he was armed and suicidal. Several hours later, he killed himself. The school, however, had been closed for seven months. There were no teachers. There were no students.

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    Everytown explains on its website that it defines a school shooting as “any time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds.”

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    A month ago, for example, a group of college students were at a meeting of a criminal-justice club in Texas when a student accidentally fired a real gun, rather than a training weapon. The bullet went through a wall, then a window. Though no one was hurt, it left the student distraught.

    Is that a "school shooting", according to Everytown, yes.

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    Seriously. This statistic is so incorrect that it becomes a valuable aid to people who want people to stop listening to people who want to do something about the actual events. Stop quoting this statistic, it will not help you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kobie View Post
    Well, if the bullet didn't hit anyone, fuck it.

    It's just like the new headline in Variety, "14 new Avengers movies came out and nobody knew." Ergo, they didn't happen.

    Oh wait, that didn't happen.
    Are you willing to die to take away my 2nd Amendment right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teflon Don View Post
    Are you willing to die to take away my 2nd Amendment right?
    When are you taking that blue shit off your posts. The FBI stated clearly that the dossier had nothing to do with their warrants. And the oppo research was started by Repubs.

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    Either the govt is going to supply teachers with a gun, ammo and training at the govts expense or make teachers foot the bill.

    Considering the govt underfunds teachers as it is requiring teachers to often buy supplies with their own money, we can assume teachers will be required to buy their own arms and ammo. How many will be willing to do that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gotcha68 View Post
    Either the govt is going to supply teachers with a gun, ammo and training at the govts expense or make teachers foot the bill.

    Considering the govt underfunds teachers as it is requiring teachers to often buy supplies with their own money, we can assume teachers will be required to buy their own arms and ammo. How many will be willing to do that?
    Arming teachers is not the answer!
    Only a NRA brain washed mind,would consider such a half ass fix.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gotcha68 View Post
    Either the govt is going to supply teachers with a gun, ammo and training at the govts expense or make teachers foot the bill.

    Considering the govt underfunds teachers as it is requiring teachers to often buy supplies with their own money, we can assume teachers will be required to buy their own arms and ammo. How many will be willing to do that?
    That is really dumb. Teachers are not trained. if they were ,it would have to be under combat conditions. they would have to be taught to act properly under extreme pressure, Then the teachers would have to be constantly retrained and have to practice. This is equivalent to having all students carry guns. They are that qualified too. You do not make a place safer by having more arms. Only the NRA is corrupt enough to say that. Of course they work for gun manufacturers. They do not have out interests in mind.

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