Growing up around guns and discipline, man you listened and followed what they showed you. There was a little something special for you to do now and then. You had to listen. Take it serious.
Kids today what? Play grand theft auto, 25% never complete a first objective and run around killing everyone in the game. Then turn 18, never learning any safety or practices, go out and buy a deadly weapon for no practical reason..After killing so many people on a TV screen...They are ready for it. It was training for them.
No? When i was in high school the Nintendo had light gun game called Duck Hunt..HArdly the same.
Playing video games as far as what skillset is required and what sensory stimulation they provide is *nothing* like actually shooting a weapon.
If the bolded held any water then people who play Paintball and Airsoft which involve actually running around shooting people for "kills" in a real world, in-person situation would become spree killers on the regular. They don't.
The reality is mass shootings are statistically, comparatively rare and school shooting events as a way kids die is an extremely rare, even tinier subset of that but they garner attention way out of proportion to their statistical significance.
Looking at school shootings specifically, the total deaths I come up with in the US since 1776 is 258. That includes K - 12, colleges and universities, all faculty and student deaths by shooting and the perpetrators if they died as a result and includes the Kent State shootings. That's in the entire country over the course of 246 years.
Every one a senseless tragedy, in many cases they almost surely could have been prevented if people around the shooter hadn't been asleep at the switch and/or derelict.
As a comparison, some annual numbers of shooting deaths just in Chicago:
-2016 770
-2017 660
-2018 561
-2019 492
-2020 769
-2021 797
That's *one* city. But you don't see anything like the kind of attention media pays to a school shooting event. These shootings are generally with illegally obtained, illegally possessed firearms. It isn't John and Jane suburbanite law abiding gun owner driving the gun crime stats.
According to Dan Rosenberg whose son Drew was killed by an unlicensed illegal alien hit-and-run driver and runs the site
http://unlicensedtokill.org/ and who did an in-depth study, he estimates approximately
3000 Americans are killed every year by illegals just in that one category of violent crime - that's a 9/11 size death toll *every year* which doesn't even include incidents like the multi-deportee convicted felon who killed Kate Steinle and whose convictions were all overturned by the California justice system - apparently by California judicial logic even though a stolen gun was in his hand when it went off he wasn't considered to be in possession of it. Convicted felons nor illegals are supposed to have a gun in their hand at all - illegals aren't supposed to be standing on American soil to begin with - but no matter.
Of course Dan Rosenberg's research was hampered by the fact that criminal acts by immigration status aren't consistently tracked by law enforcement and government.
I don't recall Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke or any Democrat making any noise, showing up at any meeting demanding the border be locked down to save American lives. Hell no, open borders is now an official part of the Democrat - and Libertarian - party platform.
Nor do I recall him making any noise about banning tobacco products that reliably kill close to 500k Americans every year, government is of course happy to take a healthy cut of the sale to a reliable market of nicotine addicts.