# Uvalde, Texas school shooting - the political thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 24, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036 "2022-05-24T21:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036/28 "2022-05-24T22:41:25Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#): > > Because I perceive the forum to be hostile to solutions for most of these homicides and additionally, uninterested. People like what is flashy–even though the continual media hype around mass shootings, very likely costs lives: [Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings | PLOS ONE](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117259) People are specifically focused on school shootings because off all developed nations, regardless of general violent crime statistics, the United States is literally the only country that routinely—as in more frequently than monthly—has mass shootings in schools, which aside from home is the last place that children should ever expect to be threatened or to experience violence and death. That the United States is also at the top of the scale of developed nations in terms of violent crime and crimes committed with firearms is also a major issue that many people would like to address but because this has become a “culture wars” issue there is zero traction to implement even modest and completely rational efforts to curtail such violence or access to firearms by violent and unstable people beyond “thoughts and prayers”, notwithstanding the very real limitations imposed by reasonable interpretations of the 2nd Amendment. You have correctly focused on the fact that gun control advocates use school mass shootings specifically to highlight the problem of violent criminal use of uncontrolled firearms, largely under the assumption that even the people who believe in “The only thing that will _stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun_,” and thus the way to stop violent crime is to have more guns will still perceive school shootings as a reason for some kind of control over availability of firearms. Unfortunately, people opposed to any limitations or regulations on firearms have literally fabulated their way into utter denial and conspiracies about “crisis actors” instead of having any reasonable and negotiable position. Certainly, the NRA and most ardent gun owners view general violent crime as an ‘urban problem’ (read: blacks and gangs) and thus, not their problem, so trying to discuss the issue in broader terms isn’t going to make it more appealing. Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036)._