Poll Shows Parents Think Schools Unsafe, Media Accepts No Responsibility

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File

Mass shootings are far too common an occurrence in our nation. But the odds that you or your child is involved in a mass shooting are slim to none. They’re rare.

School shootings are particularly rare when you think of how many schools there are in this nation.

However, a recent poll found that parents are convinced schools aren’t safe environments.

The deadly attack at Columbine High School in 1999 seemed to usher in a new era of school shootings.

Two decades later, polls consistently capture growing fears among American parents that their children face imminent danger whenever they go to school. Those fears have only intensified since attacks at an elementary school in 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, and last year at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, some research suggests that some type of school gun violence happens almost daily in the United States. Other studies indicate that deaths from school violence have actually declined since 1991. Answers to some key questions about school attacks over the past several decades:

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What do the data show?

According to data compiled by Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, who has been researching gun violence for …Read the Rest

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