Smasharoo wrote:
They protect them from injury by the accidental discharge of a firearm. For your statement to be true the incidence of such injury must be be zero. Is that the case, or are you simply factually incorrect?
You tell me. Prior to the creation of gun free zones around schools, was the rate of death or injury on school grounds via accidentally discharged firearm by a school staff member significant relative to say, slipping on a wet floor in the bathroom, or falling down stairs, or participating in sports? Amazingly, we haven't banned mops, and stairs, and sports (yet) in our schools.
Sure Smash. You're technically correct in that the incident rate can't be zero, but it was close enough to be statistically irrelevant. Guess I should have accounted for the not surprisingly inconsistent application of the Smasharoo literal interpretation. I'll acknowledge that by creating those gun free zones, we've saved 1/1,000,000 as many injuries as we could have saved by eliminating say pencils from our schools. Hell. I'm betting that there are more broccoli related injuries in school cafeterias over time than accidental shooting injuries. But I'll give you the irrelevant point. The number is presumably greater than zero.