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Researchers at Northeastern University say mass school shootings are extremely rare, that shootings involving students have been declining since the 1990s, and four times as many children were killed in schools in the early 1990s than today.
“There is not an epidemic of school shootings,” said James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern. He said more children die each year from pool drownings or bicycle accidents.
There are around 55 million schoolchildren in the U.S., the study said, and over the
past 25 years, about 10 students on average per year were killed by gunfire at school.
The Everytown group said this month that its own research shows there have been nearly 300 school shootings in America since 2013 — defining a shooting as anytime a firearm discharges a live round inside or into a school building or on a school campus.
“The thing to remember is that these are extremely rare events, and no matter what you can come up with to prevent it, the shooter will have a workaround,” Mr. Fox said in a report on the university’s website.
Schools safer today than in 1990s, study on shootings says
So why does the MSM continually cover these RARE, extremely rare events and make it sound like it happens ALL the time???? Advertising! Ratings!
People! Wake up! Don't get agitated. Don't get emotional. AND DON'T GET IRRATIONAL!
“There is not an epidemic of school shootings,” said James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern. He said more children die each year from pool drownings or bicycle accidents.
There are around 55 million schoolchildren in the U.S., the study said, and over the
past 25 years, about 10 students on average per year were killed by gunfire at school.
The Everytown group said this month that its own research shows there have been nearly 300 school shootings in America since 2013 — defining a shooting as anytime a firearm discharges a live round inside or into a school building or on a school campus.
“The thing to remember is that these are extremely rare events, and no matter what you can come up with to prevent it, the shooter will have a workaround,” Mr. Fox said in a report on the university’s website.
Schools safer today than in 1990s, study on shootings says
So why does the MSM continually cover these RARE, extremely rare events and make it sound like it happens ALL the time???? Advertising! Ratings!
People! Wake up! Don't get agitated. Don't get emotional. AND DON'T GET IRRATIONAL!
