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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Which means that most sane parents are terrified of their children dying at school.
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It means most parents should turn off the TV. Making risk assessments based on the fear peddled by the media is bad parenting.
Many parents also regard child abduction by strangers as something to be highly worried about, and let that fear keep their kids from enjoying all sorts of freedom, from walking to school, to playing outside unsupervised, or taking public transit. And yet the odds of a child being abducted by strangers is less than being struck by lightning.
America's laws around guns are bonkers. But that doesn't mean the risk of kids being shot at school is significant, or greater than it was 30 or 40 years ago.