This quote is misleading. First, OK2Say takes all kinds of reports from bullying, to child abuse, threats, suicide etc. So that 35,000 number includes many items that are not police matters and are sent to other agencies such as Children's Protective Services or the schools and many are not investigated as they don't rise to the level requiring investigation (I worked as a supervisor for CPS in MI for their Centralized Intake and screened many of these out). Further the 500 threats listed are for all schools in MI, not just Oxford.You have just pooh-poohed people who are rightly concerned about school violence, a cruel and callous indifference to life on your part. There are more things than an actual shooting to be concerned about. Verbal or telephone threats, or people bringing a gun but being thwarted by police (it's happened in my town) ALL get people "extremely upset", children traumatized, parents furious, and teachers quitting. Those threats are not rare items at all:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/05/us/school-violence-threats-parents-dilemma-dg/index.htmlExternal Quote:The district home of Oxford High School in Michigan – where a teenager in 2021 killed four students and wounded six others and a teacher – got 35,000 threats in a month after the massacre. It typically gets 500 in a year, according to an academic study that claims it's one of the first to quantify more than 1,000 threats of school violence over four academic years.
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No agency or group tracks all threats of US school violence, from possible gun attacks to bombings to any other conceivable danger.
"Schools likely quietly handle thousands of threats of shootings that do not make the news," the study's authors wrote this year in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Threat Assessment and Management.
All of these of those threats requires police time (that we pay for) to investigate. Many of them, such as bomb threats, require a school to be evacuated with the loss of class time. ALL of them traumatize the school staff, even when the students are not aware of them. It's heartless to hand-wave away that trauma, and all, apparently, for the sake of keeping your gun.