School Shooting at Oxford High School

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You also have to consider how unwieldy a car or truck would be in assaulting particular victims. The car/truck gig is not all that good at infiltrating hallways and taking out an agile would be victim in a parking lot situation. Your armed forces don’t rely on infantry to kill the enemy with Hummers, they carry guns instead.

From any statistics I've seen, more people are killed with guns than by other means. Many of these gun deaths are suicides which can be fairly easily accomplished by other means like poisoning. Cars mostly work with adults at busy outdoor venues like parades and outdoor fests. With good planning, three commercial airings can take out 2996 people at a time. A couple of years ago, I figured out that children are statistically safer inside schools than outside of schools not including gang and knife incidents the government like to fudge school shooting numbers with. As has been pointed out, knives are too slow to kill large numbers of school children and we know that cars and commercial airliners don't work well in schools either. Although big city crime reports might have 3-7 people being murdered over a weekend, every weekend, and these numbers far exceed shootings in schools, those incidents involve mostly adults and are by nature less dramatic than someone shooting up a bunch of children all at once. There is probably a racial aspect too in terms of the audience caring whether 20 mostly white kids get killed in a school or 150 mostly black people were killed here and there in random Democratic big cities last weekend.

One thing I've wondered about lately is how many of our school shootings have been in private schools vs. public schools. If, I'm guessing, 10% of our children attend private schools, then we should expect 10% of school shootings to happen in private schools. if the percentage of killings is far less than 10%, then school vouchers might be a partial solution this school shooting problem. At least this would provide an option for poor and middle income parents worried about such incidents in schools. Rich people largely send their children to private schools already anyway.

Canuck, "NATO estimated last week that Canada spent 1.36% of its GDP last year on the military". You can criticize the US all you want but Canada probably needs to do more to hold up its end so the US doesn't have to compensate for Canada's NATO defense shortcomings. You might need more Hummers, a real navy, guns, etc. if your PM has to take on someone better armed than truck drivers.