If you want, you can find the data on the number of school shootings before and after Columbine. Here is a website with those stats: https://echomovement.org/school-shootings/

You can see that the change was slight at first, but in the last 10 years it has gone through the roof.

So, you can argue that there is no way to know how many were prevented, but we can see that they occur in MUCH larger numbers than they did pre-Columbine. Maybe the numbers would be higher without the cops there? Whose to say. I can tell you that there seems to be a problem that we aren’t addressing, and sending cops into schools to arrest little children of color doesn’t seem to be the answer we all are hoping for. Maybe we can look at the system in systemic racism and see what systems need to change? Does that system involve gutless fucking pigs who like to shoot minorities and hide while children are being mowed down? Maybe we should have a fucking barbecue.

So, yeah. You can’t say how many they’ve prevented, but I can tell you how many dead children are buried now on their watch, and that tells me they aren’t worth the salt in the cure.

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