School shooting of the day
Some days, you don't have a school shooting; for whatever reason, nobody goes over the edge and takes their gun into the local school. You might even get two or three of those in a row, but don't get complacent; most mornings you wake up to school shooting of the day, and you're wondering, who do I know at that school? I hope they're ok? Should I call them or check the victims list?School shooting geography is not so much where was it? in what building? where was the shooter from? as much as it is a much wider speculation about chance. At the rate we're going, what is the likelihood that one of my children's schools will be next? Is this a kind of random lotto where one out of thousand gets it randomly every so often? If it is really every day, or two or three a day, or you expand it to include other places besides schools, what does that say about your likelihood of making it to adulthood or dying a natural death?
With grim determination we read (in my case first thing in the morning) about the details. They're still looking for a motive. Motive? What sane person could have a motive to take their gun into a school, any school, anywhere, and start shooting it? Nobody. We're not talking sane people here. We're talking mentally ill people in a world with more guns than people, in a world that's armed itself so heavily in the last few years that we have to trip over guns just to get to school.
Now that's a reason to learn geography.
posted by tom @ 6:19 AM
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