Though we cannot dismiss the recent mass shooting in Parkland, I find this study interesting. I do still think we need to have trained, responsible armed personnel in every school and schools should no longer be gun free zones. Information like this needs to be forwarded to Gov. Rick Scott.
Study: School Shootings Are Not On The Rise, Incidents Involving Students Declining Since 1990sThe shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida has triggered a new call for gun control. On February 14, Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 people. It’s tragic. It shouldn’t happen. And it shouldn’t have happened; state, federal, and local officials had multiple opportunities to stop Cruz from committing this shooting. Yet, the emerging narrative concurrent to the gun control push is that America is becoming a shooting gallery, especially our schools.
A new study shows that’s not the case, with schools noted for being safer than they were in 1990s. Also, school shootings are still a rare occurrence. James Allan Fox, criminology professor at the Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University, said that while certain new gun laws could reduce gun crimes, they’d likely not prevent future school shootings. He also wrote an op-ed about how school shootings are rare, and that more kids are killed walking to school. That’s not to mitigate these tragedies, but it offers a more grounded look at these incidents. There is no epidemic of mass or school shootings occurring in America.......
..........Fridel and Fox used data collected by USA Today, the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Report, Congressional Research Service, Gun Violence Archive, Stanford Geospatial Center and Stanford Libraries, Mother Jones, Everytown for Gun Safety, and a NYPD report on active shooters.
Their research also finds that shooting incidents involving students have been declining since the 1990s...........
......... As for mass shootings, in general, they’re also rare, with FiveThirtyEight, which is not a conservative outlet, noting that using these tragic shootings as the only gauge on how to craft social policy firearms could lead to disastrous results.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/03/08/study-school-shootings-are-not-on-the-rise-incidents-involving-students-declini-n2458947
