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They're actually decreasing.
Very interesting article by Carey Wedler
Media coverage following the school shooting at a Florida high school earlier this month appears to imply that these types of massacres are pervasive. As one New York Times headline put it, “A ‘Mass Shooting Generation’ Cries Out for Change.”
But according to a recent report from News@Northeastern University, which spoke with James Alan Fox, a Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and doctoral student Emma Fridel, the perception that school shootings are simply a part of daily American life is misleading (take, for example, the widely-shared statistic that there had already been 18 school shootings in 2018, a figure that was then just as widely debunked).
“There is not an epidemic of school shootings,” he told Northeastern, noting that four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 1990s than are killed today. He added that, as Northwestern summarized, “more kids are killed each year from pool drownings or bicycle accidents.”...
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Don’t Believe the Media - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com
Very interesting article by Carey Wedler
Media coverage following the school shooting at a Florida high school earlier this month appears to imply that these types of massacres are pervasive. As one New York Times headline put it, “A ‘Mass Shooting Generation’ Cries Out for Change.”
But according to a recent report from News@Northeastern University, which spoke with James Alan Fox, a Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and doctoral student Emma Fridel, the perception that school shootings are simply a part of daily American life is misleading (take, for example, the widely-shared statistic that there had already been 18 school shootings in 2018, a figure that was then just as widely debunked).
“There is not an epidemic of school shootings,” he told Northeastern, noting that four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 1990s than are killed today. He added that, as Northwestern summarized, “more kids are killed each year from pool drownings or bicycle accidents.”...
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Don’t Believe the Media - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com