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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
Here's some solid evidence against the idea that additional restrictions and/or gun bans will "save our children".
Research done by: James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern.
Unfortunately, this study will very likely be completely ignored or lambasted by the MSM.
A few key points:
"This is not an epidemic"
"Mass school shootings are incredibly rare events. In research publishing later this year, Fox and doctoral student Emma Fridel found that on average, mass murders (4+ people killed excluding the assailant) occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."
"Their research also finds that shooting incidents involving students have been declining since the 1990s."
"Four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 1990s than today..."
"The thing to remember is that these are extremely rare events, and no matter what you can come up with to prevent it, the shooter will have a workaround," Fox said, adding that over the past 35 years, there have been only five cases in which someone ages 18 to 20 used an assault rifle in a mass shooting.
Here's some solid evidence against the idea that additional restrictions and/or gun bans will "save our children".
Research done by: James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern.
Unfortunately, this study will very likely be completely ignored or lambasted by the MSM.
A few key points:
"This is not an epidemic"
"Mass school shootings are incredibly rare events. In research publishing later this year, Fox and doctoral student Emma Fridel found that on average, mass murders (4+ people killed excluding the assailant) occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."
"Their research also finds that shooting incidents involving students have been declining since the 1990s."
"Four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 1990s than today..."
"The thing to remember is that these are extremely rare events, and no matter what you can come up with to prevent it, the shooter will have a workaround," Fox said, adding that over the past 35 years, there have been only five cases in which someone ages 18 to 20 used an assault rifle in a mass shooting.
