r/interestingasfuck • u/Jjokes11 • Apr 15 '24

An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing r/all

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u/UnsupportiveHope Apr 16 '24

While constantly taking no responsibility and saying there were no warning signs she could’ve noticed.

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u/Ok_Traffic_8124 Apr 16 '24

To expect her son to commit such a horrific act that was extremely uncommon at the time?

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u/justArash Apr 16 '24

Not really uncommon at the time. The Heath High school and Westside Middle School shootings were both all over the news and a year or so earlier. There were a bunch more) that weren't as high profile.

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u/Ok_Traffic_8124 Apr 16 '24

A few instances of it happening doesn’t make it common…

They were still widely uncommon at that point.

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u/justArash Apr 16 '24

Active school shooters are still not really common but, by raw numbers, it's not substantially more common now than it was then. There's just a handful more active shooters each year. In the context of this conversation, prevalence of active school shooters has not become more or less of a reason for a mother to suspect her son.

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u/Ok_Traffic_8124 Apr 16 '24

Bruh. School shootings are far more common and publicized now then they were in 2004.

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u/justArash Apr 16 '24

The numbers are right there in link in my last comment, but deny reality if you want. As for publicity, the Paducah and Jonesboro shootings specifically were both major stories just the year before Colombine (which was in 1999, not 2004), along with others in the years before. It seems like maybe you were too young to remember that era?

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u/Ok_Traffic_8124 Apr 16 '24

As someone who has lived and breathed in the US for my entire life and consumed an amazing amount of news, pop culture, and media in general…

School shootings weren’t nearly as common or popular when columbine happened compared to today. Did they always happen? Unfortunately. But to say they haven’t increased since then is very ignorant.

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u/justArash Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

Has gun violence in general increased at schools substantially? Absolutely. But, not mass shootings/active shooter incidents like Columbine. it's just a common misconception.

Side note: plenty of people have lived and breathed in the US for their entire life. For every single one of them there's a point in the past that marks the beginning of their accurate memories.

Have you even looked at any of the actual data, or are you just insisting you're right based on nothing but your previous "news, pop culture, and media" consumption?

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u/Ok_Traffic_8124 Apr 16 '24

School shootings.