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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Median household income is more like $60,000, which would be a more appropriate number to use. I don't really understand that point though. The mass school shootings tend to be at suburban middle or upper middle class schools. Individual hand gun type shootings are more likely at lower income schools.
That just reinforces my belief that these shootings get a disproportionately high amount of coverage and sensationalism from cable news. That leads to people being more afraid of something that is unlikely to happen. I also think that the sensational media coverage leads to more of these events happening.
For the record, I'm perfectly ok with banning and removing any and all guns. I just think public policy should be about making a real difference to people's safety and not reacting to what gets the most coverage on the news.
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The median household income being $60k means that both parents make $30k. Right in that 83%. Which means that most sane parents are terrified of their children dying at school.
Rifle massacres occur with frequency in exactly one first world country. That they happen at all is the problem. It is not the fault of media coverage - they cover these things because they're ####ed up and shouldn't be happening. There used to be an assault weapons ban. This didn't happen every week.
It's been 20 years since Columbine. It's been seven since Sandy Hook. Pulse, Parkland, Vegas, Aurora, Charleston, El Paso. Massacres in elementary schools, high schools, nightclubs, country music concerts, Batman movies, church prayer groups, and Wal Marts.
58 people wouldn't have died at a Jason Aldean concert because of a handgun fired from a hotel window. Stopping, or at the very least controlling, semi automatic rifle sales all but eliminates rifle massacres. That's a win.