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Old 05-01-2025, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Pugchief View Post
THIS is your concern? There's a rule of logic called "The 2% Rule", i.e., if there's less than a 2% chance of something happening, you shouldn't concern yourself with it. What is the likelihood of a school shooting? 1/1000th of 1%?

Primary focus should be keeping kids focused on schoolwork.
The likelihood of a school shooting is 100% for all schools where there have been a school shooting.

The likelihood has increased significantly since Columbine. In 2024 alone, there were 39 school shootings across the country. That's almost one in every contiguous state. So the odds of it happening in your state, in 2024, was over 80:1