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A school shooting videogame made by the parents of a victim aims to change minds about gun control: 'This is not a scary game, it's an educational game' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's no way that figure holds up. For tornadoes I mean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It could be that many tornados have been near schools, (justifying the drills), but only that many have actually hit the schools (which would be catastrophic without the drills)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

That's possible. I think where the data goes astray is the severity of the tornado. Like in other words, I bet tornadoes are hitting schools all the time but it's hardly more than a strong wind.

Like just from a quick Google search, there are about 1,200 tornadoes a year in the United States. And there have been days that have had record tornadoes of like 100 tornadoes per day. And I know, at least as of a few years ago, there were quite a few areas of the country where there are huge gaps in radar coverage.

It's just that it's not really anyone's job to count how many schools get hit by tornadoes. It's kind of like how with dog bites, it's not anyone's job to record the breed, so the data ends up being a total crap shootn and nobody really has any idea.