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TIL School shootings in America date all the way back to the 1700s

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1700s The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine o...

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as the 2nd amendment

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- The constitution was made to be amended to adapt with the times. Time to amend the 2nd amendment and require a valid reason such as hunting for having a firearm.
  
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  Valid reason 1. In order to increase the cost of wide spread authoritarian action against the people of the Unites States.
  
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These are mostly shootings that happened in the vicinity of a school. Natives attacking a schoolhouse while settlers are essentially at war with them. Targeted attacks on individuals who work at the school. The actual intent of using a school and everyone in it as random targets to be slaughtered in some act of pointless revenge or whatever doesn’t happen until much later.

So shootings in the vicinity of schools is definitely not new, but shootings as a deliberate act of terror or screwed up revenge is definitely something that has taken off since the 1980’s.

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- That is such a lie.
  
  The first entry on that list is an attack by indigenous peoples. The rest are basically all what we could consider a school shooting.
  
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  Again, most of those are targeted attacks on individuals. E.g. student mad at X person and gets revenge.
  
  Much different from the columbine-like terroristic ones. E.g. killing anyone and everyone they can.
  
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The UK dates back to the 1700s and has a knife problem but we don't talk about that or ban knives

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- When the UK has fully automatic knives that can stab multiple people in microseconds then we can compare apples to apples but until then I will take a knife problem over guns in a micro heartbeat.
  
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  Man, a minigun that shoots knives would be awesome.
  
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  It has to be a repeating knife launcher. Not only can you stab microseconds apart, you can stab people from great distances. And you carry hundreds of knives on you to stab with.
  
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- Why are you lying?
  
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  https://benkinsella.org.uk/knife-crime-statistics/ Wasn't comparing us to UK in knifes us gun to uk knives I'm not lying your just misinformed
  
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- Ironically their knife control is tighter than some state's gun control.
  
  But you already know why they don't ban knife.
  
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- If I'm not mistaken they don't exactly take kindly to even letter openers. So you'd be incorrect.
  
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  Seriously do you have to do a background check for a pairing knife grow up
  
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- To be fair, if you banned knives, how would you be able to perform one of those famous british stabbings. As a tourist, visiting London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds or even Glasgow just wouldn't be the same.
  
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  It's practically a British rite of passage.
  
  Can you really say you've had the proper UK experience if you haven't been stabbed? I myself was stabbed 17 times on my last outing to Brighton.
  
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- Maybe because comparing knives to guns, which is exactly what you are doing, is fucking stupid. Guns literally have the capacity to murder hundreds of people within minuets.
  
  You are riddled with logical fallacies. Perhaps you should get that looked at.
  
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