I was listening to a radio show called “Gun Talk” and heard a reference to a statistic I had not heard before that 4 times as many people had died in High School Football accidents than have been killed by shootings in school.
#1 Is this true?
#2 If so why is there no public outcry to make HS sports safer.
And why isn’t this is a Great Debate?
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The statistic you quote is probably true, because a vast number of high school kids play football. In the millions. The number of people kids in the position to be affected by school shootings is lower by at least a few orders of magnitude. Several thousand per year.
Furthermore, safety in high school sports is of major concern in many areas, especially with the recent incidents in Northwestern’s football program and the Minnesota Vikings.
Not to cast aspersions on Gun Talk because I am not familiar with it, but what you got here is a (likely) true fact that means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things.
People who ate Pokemon cereal as a child have lower cancer rates than those who didn’t…
[sub]of course, people who ate Pokemon cereal as a child are still children, and therefore have lower cancer rates than the rest of the population[/sub]
Same sort of situation you’ve described. That stat is true could be verified (or refuted), but it seems kinda pointless.