C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
‘The Parkland shooting last month has energized student activists, who are angry and frustrated over gun violence. But it's also contributed to the impression that school shootings are a growing epidemic in America.
In truth, they're not.
"Schools are safer today than they had been in previous decades," says James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University who has studied the phenomenon of mass murder since the 1980s.’
Despite Heightened Fear Of School Shootings, It's Not A Growing Epidemic
This undermines both the argument in support of arming teachers and the argument in support of banning AR 15s as a means to decrease school shootings – where such shootings are already on the decrease.
School shootings indeed remain a problem which needs to be addressed – but the ‘solution’ is neither more guns nor more gun regulations.
In truth, they're not.
"Schools are safer today than they had been in previous decades," says James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University who has studied the phenomenon of mass murder since the 1980s.’
Despite Heightened Fear Of School Shootings, It's Not A Growing Epidemic
This undermines both the argument in support of arming teachers and the argument in support of banning AR 15s as a means to decrease school shootings – where such shootings are already on the decrease.
School shootings indeed remain a problem which needs to be addressed – but the ‘solution’ is neither more guns nor more gun regulations.