YankeeTarheel wrote:Yet despite being expelled from school for violently attacking another student dating his ex-GF (to whom he was abusive--no surprise there), he was, under Florida law, able to stockpile an armory.
You mean the laws of the US. Florida law isn't unique in this regard. No state has laws that would have rendered him a prohibited person, and we've had deadlier mass shootings in this country that involved guns that are legal in all 50 states.
YankeeTarheel wrote:The post saying we've only had 8 school shootings vs 5 for Germany simply isn't accurate. We've had 12 school shootings in the US just in 2018. No other nation is seeing that. And most of them, not all, but most, are by young, white males. It can and does happen anywhere and everywhere.
You've completely misquoted the post on Germany vs. The US. Since 1999 (including Columbine) Germany has only had 2
mass shootings in K-12 schools, while the US has only had 5. And per capita, their rate of both mass shootings in K-12 schools and deaths due to such shootings exceed ours by a large amount. The mass shootings in question are all listed in that post, along with the dates and numbers of deaths. If you know of any left out, feel free to add them. Otherwise, you're wrong.
And the Everytown figure on school shootings for 2018 has already been roundly discredited, since they are counting things like a police officer having an accidental discharge that just went into the floor, a middle-aged man who tried to commit suicide at 2:00am in his car parked on a street adjacent to a school, and a couple of cases where someone on a school campus merely thought they heard a gunshot in the distance. To them any shot fired, or believed to have been fired, anywhere remotely near a school is a 'school shooting'.