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How often do people come to school armed, wave a gun around, and not end up shooting people?
Or: How often does someone confront unarmed innocents with a gun and it end peacefully?
How do the peaceful ends compare with the violent ones, in terms of frequency?
How many of those would still end peacefully, if it became a standoff or a hostile confrontation?
There should be options, yes; but is escalation the only one?
School shootings are predominately a phenomenon of contemporary America -- they existed previously, and they exist elsewhere, but we have more. Shouldn't we address the root causes (what makes people want to shoot up our schools), rather than the symptoms (them, armed, in a school)?
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