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Comment by wharvle

School shootings come up a lot in these kinds of conversations.

Of course you can run the numbers and realize this plainly falls way below the level at which anyone should be using that use-case as a justification for anything.

(nb. the vast majority of school shootings you'll see in the statistics aren't the sort where kids having phones matters, they're e.g. targeted attacks on a single person, gang- or otherwise crime-related targeted attacks, violence that just by happenstance takes place on school grounds outside and perhaps not even involving any students or staff; all of which tend to be over almost as fast as they start and aren't an ongoing threat to bystanders once they're over, and even those aren't terribly likely to be something a kid is present for during their school career, on average)

parent wharvle 2 years ago

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