Round and round we go.
It is actually you who appear to not be bothered by shootings in you schools, or other murders by guns, they make up part of the gun homicides that according to you " are trivial in amount by comparison"...really?
Al I think you recently posted a list of the what caused your hundreds and thousands of deaths, I can't seem to find it now but four on the list that I remember were heart disease, overdose of drugs, deaths caused by cars, and deaths caused by medical negligence.
Although tragic, most of these deaths were self inflicted, and in the case of medical negligence, and deaths by cars not a deliberate act inflicted on someone else. Below is a list of shootings in your schools in the US in 2018 up to February this year i.e. 2 months. You may feel they are trivial. i and many others don't.
Please show me where an individual has gone into a school or any other place for that matter, and committed the deliberate premeditated mass murder and deaths or injury of innocent children or members of the public by using.
Heart disease.
Drugs overdose.
A car.
Medical negligence
On January 22, shots were fired from a truck in the car park of NET Charter High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, targeting students during their lunch break. One student was injured during the incident.
On the same date, a 16-year-old male fired at his 15-year-old classmate in the cafeteria of Italy High School, Texas. The young victim was wounded while cops quickly apprehended the teen shooter.
On January 23, a 15-year-old male student shot 16 people in the lobby at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, killing two 15-year-olds. One died at the scene and the other passed away from wounds in hospital.
On February 1, two 15-year-old students were shot and injured inside a classroom at Sal Castro Middle School in Los Angeles, California. A 12-year-old girl was arrested.
On February 14, a gunman stormed Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing at least 17 people and injuring up to 50. Parkland police arrested former pupil Nikolas Cruz, 19, who was expelled from the school in 2017.
On March 7, a 17-year-old girl was shot dead and a 17-year-old boy injured in a gun incident at Huffman High School in Birminham, Alabama.
Of course I'm bothered and concerned about shootings, but the other deaths I am concerned about as well, the numbers are overwhelming yet the gun issue is at the front with far, far lower numbers. Liberals tend to get all puffed up and righteous with their causes and make it sound as if the right is hating, racist, bigoted, uncaring, capitalist. And they are so caring and giving, with other peoples money of course. Liberal aren't concerned with gun deaths in major US cities were gun control is the strictest, thousands of deaths. On any given week, more people die in US cities than those that die from random gun violence year round, but you are not concerned with that, it doesn't play as well for your gun control agenda. Most of the deaths I mentioned are preventable, but that doesn't serve your control issue. You have radicals blowing up your neighbors multiple times yearly in your country, yet in your high minded liberal beliefs you think you have a right to tell Americans what and how we should run our country. thanks, but no thanks!