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There have been 22 school shootings in the US so far this year
I offer no comment other than to say the United States has a real problem.
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Re: There have been 22 school shootings in the US so far this year
I can't offer anything else either, Tennyson, except we are told guns will make us safer. That's the way it was 250 years ago anyway. Geez.
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Re: There have been 22 school shootings in the US so far this year
Schools safer today than in 1990s, study on shootings says
As President Trump and lawmakers consider ways to make schools safer in the wake of the Florida high school massacre, an academic study is reporting that U.S. schools overall are safer today than they were in the early 1990s, and there is not an epidemic of such shootings.
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.
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Schools are safer than they were in the 90s, and school shootings are not more common than they used to be, researchers say
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Re: There have been 22 school shootings in the US so far this year
I understand your point: While school shootings are part of the problem, please check out total mass shootings in the USA that have taken place so far in 2019.