The same reason that guns result in 1% of deaths but you hear about them constantly. It makes for a good news program.
All this fearmongering over such a rare occurrence is actively causing harm: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/11/lockdown-...
For literally nothing.
They are _avoidable_, that's why they are not overstated.
A school age child is nearly 200x more likely to die by suicide than from a school shooting. That's a tragedy. And that's _avoidable_. Which do you hear about more?
The attention and resources of society are limited. We would be better off allocating resources to bigger problems, but we don't. That's a tragedy.
The rest of the world doesn't have the school shooter problem.
It's fixable, and the fix is bleedingly obvious. There's no excuse.
Not that the US obsession with guns and lax gun control that enables school shootings is defensible.
Who knows who is right. But it’s ridiculously arrogant to say that the American position is not defensible. It was literally just a couple of generations ago when the US was air dropping rifles into France to support the Resistance. Even if we have now entered an age where ordinary people don’t need guns—that new age is younger than computers, supersonic flight, or television. Its far too soon to conclude that’s this is how the world will always be from here forward.
It's a crackpot idea to think that 'arming citizens' helps the whole. And the fact you think it's 'arrogant' to spell out a basic truth that the rest of the world understands is dumbfounding.
Crazy, I know.