As for Borys, it takes a special kind of fucked in the head to dismiss the newsworthiness or tragedy of a violent death based on how often that particular violent death occurs.
Lots of cops are killed in the line of duty? Really, Borys, you don't say? I had no idea that being a police officer was a dangerous fucking job. Thank you for enlightening me.
Hell, there are a lot of homicides in the United States from guns. 10,000 a year, in fact. Why, using your statistical metric, that's more than one person getting shot to death every hour.
By your fucked up value system, that practically means that no murders are worthy of a news article, or any sombre reflection. Nope, they're so normal that we should gloss over them without a second thought.
But, okay, let's run with the school shootings angle.
Fatalities through school shootings by school year:
99-00: 33
00-01: 31
01-02: 17
02-03: 16
03-04: 49
04-05: 39
05-06: 27
06-07: 32
07-08: 16
08-09: 13
09-10: 11
Now, notwithstanding the welcome drop-off in the last three years, that may not be quite as run-of-the-mill as police officer deaths, but those are still some pretty high numbers for people killed in school shootings. Pretty normal in America, really. I mean, in 2003-2004, that's someone killed in a school shooting every 7 days. Pretty normal occurrence. Not the sort of thing that is thread-worthy, surely.
If you're a cynical asshole, that is.
To summarize, if your reaction to a police officer being murdered in the line of duty for conducting a traffic stop is:
"oh, a school shooting, how tragic! *clicks link* wait, it was just a police officer killed? ..... *yawn*"
My response is:
"Go fuck your goat, Borys"
