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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 28 Jun 2018
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      Journalists obviously shouldn't be maliciously threatened, but let's be clear about something. The average journalist in the United States is in no way at risk of physical harm. Pretending otherwise inflates their collective ego. Try talking to commercial fishermen or roofers

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    2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 29 Jun 2018
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      They’re subject to constant danger and their relative death and injury rates reflect that.

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    3. Jackie D. Semmens‏ @Jdsemm 29 Jun 2018
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      TBF you can chose to become a commercial fisherman or roofer and are compensated accordingly. You are required by law to be a student. Also even if you are never shot in school, students have to live with the constant threat hanging over their heads.

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 29 Jun 2018
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      99.999999999% of students never have to deal with that threat. Inflating it, and securitizing their schools, and subjecting them to endless fear-instilling "drills," is counter-productive.

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        2. Jackie D. Semmens‏ @Jdsemm 29 Jun 2018
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          No, they all have to live with the threat. The majority will never have to experience its actualization. You are conflating the two.

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        3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 29 Jun 2018
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          Not just the "majority," but virtually 100% will never have to experience its actualization. Which is why inflating the scope of the threat is counter-productive. Same exact logic applies to terrorist "threats."

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        1. Percy Hopweather‏ @PercyHopweather 29 Jun 2018
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          99.999999999% of students, journalists, roofers, and commercial fisherman etc, never have to deal with the threat of being lightly grazed by Maxine Waters as she brushes by them, but that didn’t stop you from shrieking like somebody tossed a cat in the shower with you.pic.twitter.com/s2zaSHKmVs

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        1. Lucy Johnson‏ @LucyofKyle 29 Jun 2018
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          During the 2015-16 school year alone, 9% of schools had to deal with the threat of violence involving a weapon. Considering a student puts in 13 years before graduation, that 9% annual figure gets scary really fast. How did you come up with your number? https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2017/2017122.pdf …

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        1. C. G.‏ @GypsyDaughter3 29 Jun 2018
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          Until it's not. (High school teacher)

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        1. Mike Bevel  👈 🌈‏ @BevelonBooks 29 Jun 2018
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          I feel like you're mistaking "deal with" -- which you want to mean "experience," and "deal with" -- which is what the rest of us are talking about: Every day students have to think about (i.e. deal with) whether today is their day to be a shooting statistic.

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        1. America, you're in danger girl...‏ @OverUnderClover 29 Jun 2018
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          Michael just dropping by to say I can't doing stand you. I've never said that to anyone before. It just seems your whole aim in life is to try and be as fking unhelpful and cross-purpose as possibke at every point in history. Good day.

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        1. Morgan‏ @rjmorgan65 29 Jun 2018
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          99.999999% of Americans will never be a victim of terrorism either. Yet it seems our entire foreign and domestic policy is based on battling it.

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        1. Boozantine  👻 Guillotine (spooky)‏ @slipperywerm 29 Jun 2018
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          This is dumb. I can use the same stat for general terrorism, but we fundamentally morphed into this aggressive security state because of it.

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        1. DoesNotExonerate‏ @kosturdistan 29 Jun 2018
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          all students now get to deal with the anxiety of being shot in school.

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        1. Holyterror‏ @Holyterror44 29 Jun 2018
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          “Securitize” is a financial term, and nonsense in this context.

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        1. Steve‏ @s73v3r 29 Jun 2018
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          Participating in active shooter drills is dealing with it.

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        1. Edible Derangements‏ @kerstetterjohn 29 Jun 2018
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          My kids have had threats at their schools so they know all about this threat

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        1. Spooky Stacey‏ @DrSCubed 29 Jun 2018
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          That's why it's called terrorism. P.S. Auntie Maxine says, "Boo!"pic.twitter.com/O0QlQcG3yd

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        1. Marc Mercutio‏ @13quirky 29 Jun 2018
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          So I guess we should never have fire drills either? This is an idiotic argument. Failing to plan is planning to fail.

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        1. jędrek kostecki, interneciarz.‏ @jedrek 30 Jun 2018
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          Maybe you should try learning basic math, @mtracey? Aprox 0.01% of students over the past 19 years have had to deal with a shooter at school. Aprox the same as the % of HS basketball players that go on to play in the NBA.

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        1. progressive mom‏ @progressive_mom 30 Jun 2018
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          False.

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        2. Jeffrey Morgan‏ @digdawg 30 Jun 2018
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          You know even less about significant figures than you do about being a journalist.

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        1. Linus Graveyard-Lich‏ @linusrichard 30 Jun 2018
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          99.999999999% of students is all students. You’re saying no students have to deal with that threat. That’s not right.

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