Why School Shootings Aren’t The Threat We’re Told They Are

By Tom Knighton

Ever since Parkland, we’re told over and over and over that school shootings are a deeply troubling problem that needs to be addressed. We’ve been led to believe that it’s a massive problem that’s only growing. But, are our kids really at risk the moment they go to school?

Well, one report claims that they’re not, and since this is from left-leaning NPR, perhaps anti-gunners won’t dismiss it so easily.

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.

Fox and doctoral student Emma Fridel crunched the numbers, and the results should come as a relief to parents.

First, while multiple-victim shootings in general are on the rise, that’s not the case in schools. There’s an average of about one a year — in a country with more than 100,000 schools.

“There were more back in the ’90s than in …Read the Rest

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