A man in the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, India, has died after the driver of a private ambulance took him off of life support and threw him out of the vehicle so he would have the opportunity to rape his wife.
According to The Times of India, the incident occurred late last month after the woman hired the emergency vehicle to escort her, her brother, and her husband home after he was discharged from a hospital in Lucknow due to financial limitations.
Speaking with police, the woman explained that on the way home, the emergency vehicle driver asked her to sit in the front seat next to him to avoid being stopped by police.
“I was forced to sit in the front seat, and then the driver and his companion started molesting me. I objected, but they did not listen to me,” she said, adding that her husband and brother sensed something was wrong and began trying to intervene from the back of the ambulance.
As a result, the men stopped the ambulance near the Chhawani police station, where they “forcibly removed the oxygen mask from [the woman’s] husband and threw him out” of the car before locking her brother in the front and proceeding to molest her.
In addition to sexually assaulting her, the woman also informed police that the men looted over $120 USD from her purse, jewelry, her identification card, and her husband’s hospital reports.
Just because it isn’t dangerous to the average individual does not mean it isn’t a problem and something that should not be happening.
The entire point of this thread is that from an outsiders perspective, you’re only going to see the news articles and form biased opinions. You’re going to see “Oh wow, the US has a lot of school shootings, schools must be super dangerous!”, meanwhile there were 82 deaths from school shootings last year out of 49.4 million students, or 0.000165% of the student population. Even looking at injuries, we only get to 0.00054%.
Is that number too high? Fuck yes. Any number of children injured or dying due to violence is unacceptable. It’s disgusting and the lack of response from our leadership is abhorrent. But are schools in the US dangerous because of this? Absolutely not.
What? I’m not talking about an outsiders perspective. I’m American, I’m familiar with our school system.
Those are better odds than being struck by lightening in a given year, Would you argue lightning “isn’t dangerous”?
Going back to 2020 there have been 157 school shootings, we have 115,171 schools in the US.
Theres a 0.14% chance that over the course of 4 years your child’s school will experience a shooting…that’s dangerous.
Even beyond the physical danger, what does that do to for the mind? How many students have lost friends and now suffer with PTSD or Anxiety etc even if they weren’t technically “injured” by the shooting?
Yes that number is too high, and yes it makes schools dangerous. Idk why you’re trying to act like school shootings aren’t a serious danger in American society, while admitting that it’s a problem (and it’s a problem because it puts too many kids in danger…)