We already had one today, we've reached our national news quota /s

Welcome to Pittsburgh. We never make the national news.

I got downvoted for pointing out how bizarre it is that we have more mass shootings than days in our new year. Like wow I’m dumb for not knowing that’s just the way it is, I guess.

no, its cause its gang land

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_High_School_(Pittsburgh)

Guess why it didn't make the news but MSU did.

Do something?

I mean, it's not that any individual wields any particular amount of power but have you, say, given up a firearm, convinced others to do so, rethought your firearm requirements, etc. etc. etc.?

The UK had one single school shooting 27 years ago.

People literally CHANGED THEIR BEHAVIOUR. We were not a gunless country, never have been and still aren't. There are 1m firearms in the UK.

But what we did is handed weapons in, decided whether we really needed them, tried to do something about stopping it, even if it was only a token gesture unlikely to actually prevent another such shooting.

We now have a reputation for being "gun-less", because it was so effective.

And there hasn't been a school shooting in 27 years. ONE shooting, and we said "enough", we handed back weapons that we had no need for and some that we had a need for but found other ways.

I know three people who were gun-owners at the time. They all voluntarily gave in their weapons then or shortly after.

Such that - in my lifetime - I have never seen, held, or fired a weapon and don't know anyone who has one.

If you don't *DO SOMETHING*, even small token personal gestures, or large legislative changes, literally nothing is ever going to get changed, and the situation will only deteriorate further.

I work for a school and was discussing an access control system over a video conference the other day with the US manufacturer to resolve some technical issues. We were talking about what happens if someone loses their card, what if a door closes behind a child, what happens to the doors in a fire, etc.

They went on to talk about lockdown. I had to explain that - though it is a legal requirement for us to have a lockdown procedure - we are not obliged to ever actually lock down and I've never been in a genuine lockdown. Our requirements for a lockdown were very lax and most of what they were trying to make us do and configure wasn't at all necessary. I had to get them to factor in that our most likely usage of such a facility is actually probably a dog loose in the playground.

I mentioned the "27 years since our only ever school shooting" to the programmers and support people that I was talking to. They didn't believe me and had to google it. They were shocked.

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Not just that, we pay monetarily too because of increased security costs everywhere we go, and opportunity costs because we avoid some neighborhoods (for business/housing) because they have had gun violence. It also makes the police treat more people badly and kill some because it is a very acceptable thing (apparently) to say: “I thought I saw a gun, I feared for my life”. It is a much, much bigger cost than people realize.

How can we do something about guns when we have these super scary, evil balloons in our skies, that we are being told we are supposed to be afraid of????? /s

Juvenile just means kid. It doesn't mean bad kid. You're thinking of the term "Juvenile Delinquent".