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Rufus_Reddit t1_jdcs0bh wrote

Maybe you mean shootings in general, but school shootings seem to be on the rise. Wikipedia lists about 8 school shootings per year in the 2000s, about 25 per year in the 2010s' and about 36 per year in the 2020s so far. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present) ) I guess reporting standards could have changed or something.

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TSL4me t1_jdcr2y0 wrote

When people talk about the for profit college they rarely mention the huge real estate investment companies that leech off students desperate for housing. Isla Vista where ucsb is located is owned by essentially 4 companies. They are so powerfull they can swing local elections and have huge influence on the supposedly public university. Its a giant grift.

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KimJongFunk t1_jdcqwto wrote

Not sure about everyone else (or maybe my home life and environment were really that shitty) but when I was a teenager I knew exactly where to go to buy a gun on the street and roughly how much it would cost. It wasn’t exactly a secret that a certain neighborhood was rough and you could purchase guns, drugs, booze etc from the people hanging outside a particular convenience store.

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skytomorrownow t1_jdcqj3j wrote

> The kid was on some kind of disciplinary plan that required him to be frisked every morning at school. He had likely threatened this exact action towards staff/students.

I'm curious why these kinds of students cannot simply expelled? Once you need to frisk someone, that seems to be adequate grounds for them to simply be removed for safety reasons.

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