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"An eighth-grade language arts teacher from Maryland has been placed on administrative leave after school officials learned he allegedly authored two books containing questionable content under a pseudonym.
Local network WBOC News reports that the investigation concerns two books published by McLaw under the nom de plume “Dr. K.S. Voltaer,” and one is about a fictional, futuristic school shooting that goes down in history as being the largest ever in the United States.
http://rt.com/usa/182964-teacher-leave-shooting-book/"
This is lunacy. School administrators are terrified there will be another Columbine or Sandy Hook and are overreacting, or are they. What could they do to prevent one. Nothing, nil, zero. No need to ask yourself 'why', say thank you to the traitorous NRA , the propaganda arm of the small arms manufacturing industry, for blocking any form of gun control. They have successfully infected the country with The American Disease™ almost unfettered access to weapons of war that kill with brutal efficiency. Sadly there appears to be no cure.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:54AM
Yes, and yes. And there's a decent argument that reducing someone's effective radius (and ability to kill through barriers) is a useful thing to be doing if you want to reduce the body count when somebody flips out and starts killing people.
Yes, address the underlying causes that cause people to go on rampages. But if it were possible to completely eliminate guns, it's likely that somebody on a rampage would kill closer to 3-4 people rather than 25. For example, if somebody starts slashing a sword at a school, it's relatively easy for people to run away from them, put locked doors in between, or even grab a sturdy stick and push them away - it's not perfect, of course, but it reduces the damage quite a bit.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Sunday August 31 2014, @09:55AM
I agree with your figures. My concern is that we may optimize for one rare case (and ignore the underlying problems) while leaving people with greatly reduced defences in more common cases. It is premature optimization.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @10:09AM
knives/swords have a smaller radius then guns, true
on the other hands guns are way louder and thus the use of gun will warn other nearby potential victims that danger is near, in a way a knife wont
most of the articles about school knifings (mostly from china) I've seen have higher body counts then the mass shootings in the US