• I worry about it every time I hear about another shooting. So basically constantly.

    I try to tell myself that it’s unlikely, or we live in a place it couldn’t possibly happen…which is all BS and I know it.

    I just have to hope it’s something I’ll never have to deal with. If I was truly that concerned, I’d have to home school, and that’s just not going to happen. So it’s basically a low level of constant dread, and it’s disgusting that this is where we’re at here, because no one wants to face the facts and actually do anything about problem.

  • Not a parent, but I’ll speak for my Asian-American parents.

    The policy is: “You must go to school even if you have Covid, either you are buried or your are at school.” (meaning: if you aren’t dead, you have to go to school)

    “Classmates have bullet wounds? That’s your internship for being a doctor!” (/s they didn’t actually say this part, obviously, but it’s implied)

    Edit: I’m no longer in school, my college plans are on pause due to depression.

  •  Sop   ( @Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    I wanted to comment that car crashes are probably a more common death cause for children than school shootings, and while this might still be true, apparently gun related deaths are the largest cause of death among US children with motor vehicle crashes coming in close second. Really sad considering both causes have pretty easy fixes if the government is willing to do something about it.

  • Depends on what part of the country I am in. We’ve mostly been in New York state, half of that in NYC. In the city, guns are banned, so it is highly unlikely something is going to happen. We moved up state, and while it’s in the back of my mind, I would still say it’s fairly low odds. The news makes it seem like it happens all the time everywhere. Remember, it’s a huge country, so it seems more likely than it really is.

    Any shootings are still too many though.

  •  Buelldozer   ( @Buelldozer@lemmy.today ) 
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    I live in Wyoming where even Democrats own a dozen guns and it’s a matter of law that most non-felons over the age of 21 can legally carry a concealed firearm without a permit. In short firearms are prevalent and common in this part of the United States.

    With that said I have almost no worry about school shootings here. The schools do a good job of securing themselves, law enforcement takes any threat seriously, and our culture understands and mostly respects firearms.

  • Just being in the regions of multiple mass shootings over my life does change what I do with my family. If we go to an event we usually go at opening and leave early. Went to a Xmas tree lighting with 60k others and kept to the outside as the middle had nowhere to go.

  • A frightening but unlikely happenstance to me and mine. A lot of people experience a lot of things.

    When there is a population close to half a billion, it’s a thousand times more likely that a bad traffic accident will devastate