1/ Short thread. Meadow Pollack was an 18 year old student at Parkland High School with dreams of becoming an attorney. She was fatally shot as she draped her body over a younger student attempting to protect her.
2/ In the aftermath of the shooting, her father tried to figure out what policies lead to her death and teamed up with a researcher to write this book. amazon.com/Why-Meadow-Die…
3/ Here are some excerpts from this book. The book goes through all of the ways in which in which the shooting could have been prevented. If the shooter had a criminal record of one of the serious crimes that he committed he would not have been able to legally purchase a firearm.
1/ Short thread. What was the "best" year if you were to judge it solely by paying to attention to the news and not Pinkeresque metrics like child mortality in Lesotho?
2/ For the purpose of this thread we will look at years 1992 and onwards since this is when the cold war was over. We can immediately exclude years like 1994, 2001, 2004, and 2020 due to major world events.
3/ Next lets exclude every year with more than 100,000 combat deaths. That gets rid of 1999, 2013-2017 and 2021 onwards.