That’s a good point.

Young women are far less likely than young men to be suspects in school shootings. According to the K-12 school shooting database, as of Tuesday, nine suspects this year were female compared to 249 male suspected shooters.

258 school shootings this year. There are two weeks left in the year. 258/50=5.16. Five school shootings per week. That would be a shooting every single school day on average if schools ran all year long. Since schools typically have the summers are off, it’s really more than a shooting every school day. And that doesn’t even include the vast number of non-school shootings that have happened this year.

Yeah, what the hell? Didn’t they not have the 10 Commandments posted prominently in every room? I have been assured that doing so would prevent this sort of thing.

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" - Epicurus

Exactly. It’s called triage. It’s not first come, first served. If someone is bleeding out, they get treated before you. Your turn will come as soon as there are resources available to take care of you with no one dying. And if the people holding the purse strings are reducing staffing levels, then your wait time is going to a lot longer than it would be if they weren’t trying to cut corners.

“I want us to get back to a point where scientists are seen as the establishers of facts rather than arguing for policy. We need to get back to a situation where we have a shared set of facts.”

Good luck with that. There are too many scientists out there, and I use the term loosely, that are pumping out lies left and right because they can make a fast buck. There’s no way for a layman to tell the difference between legitimate research and the crap spewed out by groups funded by far right think tanks. The waters are well and truly muddied and I don’t see how we can undo this.