No...school shootings are not on the rise, according to new research.

[2aguy]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

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"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

 

[Pogo]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

 

[2aguy]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

Americans use their legal guns to save lives 1.1 million times a year according to the centers for disease control......

More children die on bicycles and in water than in school shootings....so, according to your half ass logic, we need to ban bicycles and swimming.....

 

[2aguy]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

what this also shows is that normal people owning and carrying guns, do not increase gun murder, gun crime or violent crime.....since more Americans now own and carry guns....and yet gun murder, gun crime, violent crime have all gone down, not up.

 

[Sunsettommy]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

Admit it Pogo, you have no cogent counter to the first post, your strawman complaint is silly, since that was the FIRST post!

No it was never common in the first place, far less since the 1990's according to the FIRST post. The over all murder rate has dropped around 50% since the early 1980's, this despite a massive increase of firearms in circulation, and carried concealed in the streets.

This is one of the easiest subject to understand, but leftists amazingly misunderstand it so skillfully!

 

[Pogo]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

Americans use their legal guns to save lives 1.1 million times a year according to the centers for disease control......

More children die on bicycles and in water than in school shootings....so, according to your half ass logic, we need to ban bicycles and swimming.....

Apparently not, since I never claimed we have a "bicycle culture" or a "swimming culture". Nor can you turn on a TV at any hour of any day and immediately find someone riding a bicycle or swimming. Nor is our colloquial language filled with references to bicycles and swimming.

You're not too good at this "thought" stuff are ya. Typical of the Cult.

 

[Pogo]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

Admit it Pogo, you have no cogent counter to the first post, your strawman complaint is silly, since that was the FIRST post!

No it was never common in the first place, far less since the 1990's according to the FIRST post. The over all murder rate has dropped around 50% since the early 1980's, this despite a massive increase of firearms in circulation, and carried concealed in the streets.

This is one of the easiest subject to understand, but leftists amazingly misunderstand it so skillfully!

Apparently there walk among us those who still don't know what a strawman is.

For the latest sample lesson, see post 4.

 

[2aguy]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

Americans use their legal guns to save lives 1.1 million times a year according to the centers for disease control......

More children die on bicycles and in water than in school shootings....so, according to your half ass logic, we need to ban bicycles and swimming.....

Apparently not, since I never claimed we have a "bicycle culture" or a "swimming culture". Nor can you turn on a TV at any hour of any day and immediately find someone riding a bicycle or swimming. Nor is our colloquial language filled with references to bicycles and swimming.

You're not too good at this "thought" stuff are ya. Typical of the Cult.

The Americans "Bicycle Culture," and "Swimming Culture," kills more children than school shootings, and you don't care.......you must want children to die....

 

[Pogo]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

Americans use their legal guns to save lives 1.1 million times a year according to the centers for disease control......

More children die on bicycles and in water than in school shootings....so, according to your half ass logic, we need to ban bicycles and swimming.....

Apparently not, since I never claimed we have a "bicycle culture" or a "swimming culture". Nor can you turn on a TV at any hour of any day and immediately find someone riding a bicycle or swimming. Nor is our colloquial language filled with references to bicycles and swimming.

You're not too good at this "thought" stuff are ya. Typical of the Cult.

The Americans "Bicycle Culture," and "Swimming Culture," kills more children than school shootings, and you don't care.......you must want children to die....

Apparently that would be you, since here you are shilling for the glorious wonder of school shootings. Meanwhile neither bicycles nor swimming were invented for the express purpose of killing people.

Sucks to be you but you should have thought of that before you came out on the side of death from your dank basement in mom's cellar where you never have to deal with the real world.

 

[Sunsettommy]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

Admit it Pogo, you have no cogent counter to the first post, your strawman complaint is silly, since that was the FIRST post!

No it was never common in the first place, far less since the 1990's according to the FIRST post. The over all murder rate has dropped around 50% since the early 1980's, this despite a massive increase of firearms in circulation, and carried concealed in the streets.

This is one of the easiest subject to understand, but leftists amazingly misunderstand it so skillfully!

Apparently there walk among us those who still don't know what a strawman is.

For the latest sample lesson, see post 4.

Ha ha ha, really?

Wikipedia:

"A straw man (or strawman) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.[1] One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man"."

bolding mine

His FIRST post can't meet the definition because he wasn't replying to anyone....., come on don't continue your silly argument, it was dead on arrival. His post 4 reply was actually an affirmation of post one, which you continue to ignore over and over.

Meanwhile still no counterpoint to offer comes from you, maybe you KNOW you have none to give, thus piss all over the thread instead?

 

[Pogo]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

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"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

Admit it Pogo, you have no cogent counter to the first post, your strawman complaint is silly, since that was the FIRST post!

No it was never common in the first place, far less since the 1990's according to the FIRST post. The over all murder rate has dropped around 50% since the early 1980's, this despite a massive increase of firearms in circulation, and carried concealed in the streets.

This is one of the easiest subject to understand, but leftists amazingly misunderstand it so skillfully!

Apparently there walk among us those who still don't know what a strawman is.

For the latest sample lesson, see post 4.

Ha ha ha, really?

Wikipedia:

"A straw man (or strawman) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.[1] One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man"."

bolding mine

His FIRST post can't meet the definition because he wasn't replying to anyone....., come on don't continue your silly argument, it was dead on arrival. His post 4 reply was actually an affirmation of post one, which you continue to ignore over and over.

Meanwhile still no counterpoint to offer comes from you, maybe you KNOW you have none to give, thus piss all over the thread instead?

I put your clue in real big font.

Now watch the OP plop yet another example. Pogo Predicts.

 

[2aguy]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

Americans use their legal guns to save lives 1.1 million times a year according to the centers for disease control......

More children die on bicycles and in water than in school shootings....so, according to your half ass logic, we need to ban bicycles and swimming.....

Apparently not, since I never claimed we have a "bicycle culture" or a "swimming culture". Nor can you turn on a TV at any hour of any day and immediately find someone riding a bicycle or swimming. Nor is our colloquial language filled with references to bicycles and swimming.

You're not too good at this "thought" stuff are ya. Typical of the Cult.

The Americans "Bicycle Culture," and "Swimming Culture," kills more children than school shootings, and you don't care.......you must want children to die....

Apparently that would be you, since here you are shilling for the glorious wonder of school shootings. Meanwhile neither bicycles nor swimming were invented for the express purpose of killing people.

Sucks to be you but you should have thought of that before you came out on the side of death from your dank basement in mom's cellar where you never have to deal with the real world.

Oh, pogo....you are such a dipshit. You are the one who wants dead children....they are the tool you use to push your anti-gun agenda......their blood is worth a lot to your movement....

Americans who own and carry guns do not cause gun murder, gun crime or violent crime....or school shootings......those things fall directly at the feet of democrat party policies.....releasing violent criminals over and over again, even with repeat illegal gun violations.....that is on you and them.....

In the U.S. as more Americans not only own guns, but now carry them for self defense, our gun murder rate went down 49%...

With what you believe....how do you explain that?

In the U.S. as more Americans not only own but now carry guns our gun crime rate went down 75%....

With what you believe,.....how do you explain that?

In the U.S. as more Americans not only own guns but carry them for self defense, our violent crime rate went down 72%.....

With what you believe, how do you explain that?

More Whites own guns....but they use them to commit less murder than Blacks who own fewer guns....how do you explain that?
With what you believe, how do you explain that?

Nothing you believe about guns is supported by actual facts, the truth, or reality on the ground......how do you justify your believes beyond simply not liking guns?

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Over the last 27 years, we went from 200 million guns in private hands in the 1990s and 4.7 million people carrying guns for self defense in 1997...to close to 400-600 million guns in private hands and over 18.6 million people carrying guns for self defense in 2018...guess what happened...


-- gun murder down 49%

--gun crime down 75%

--violent crime down 72%

Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware

Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.



More Guns = More Gun crime regardless of any other factors.

Actual Result:

In the U.S....as more Americans own and carry guns over the last 26 years, gun murder down 49%, gun crime down 75%, violent crime down 72%

The result: Exact opposite of theory of anti-gunners....

In Science when you have a theory, when that theory is tested....and the exact opposite result happens...that means your theory is wrong. That is science....not left wing wishful thinking.



Whatever the crime rate does......as more Americans owned more guns the crime rate did not go up....so again...



anges....in science, that means your theory is wrong...
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Maine tops ‘safest states’ rankings four years after removing major gun restriction

When Maine passed a “Constitutional Carry” law allowing Maine residents to carry a concealed firearm without any special permit in 2015, opponents of the law forecast a dangerous future for the state. They said the new law would hurt public safety and put Maine kids at risk.



One state representative who opposed the bill went so far as to say it would give Mainers a reason to be afraid every time they went out in public or to work.

Another state representative suggested the law would lead to violent criminals with recent arrests and convictions legally carrying handguns.


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Now four years later, Maine has been named the safest state in the nation according to US News and World Report’s public safety rankings, which measures the fifty states based on crime data.



Ranking as the top safest state for violent crime and fourth for property crime, Maine edges out another New England state, Vermont, for the top spot. Of note, Vermont also is a “Constitutional Carry” state. New Hampshire ranks third in the national rankings, giving New England all three of the top spots in the nation.

In 2018, Maine was edged out by Vermont in the same “safest states” ranking, but declared the best state overall in the broader “Crime and Corrections” category.

In 2017, using a different methodology, Maine was ranked second among the fifty states in the “Crime and Corrections” category and also second in the categories used to rank the “safest states.”

The U.S. News and World Report “Best States” rankings are built in partnership with McKinsey & Company, a firm that works closely with state leaders around the nation.

Maine has also ranked at the top of other state rankings. WalletHub.com recently ranked Maine second in “Personal and Residential Safety” among the fifty states, and third overall.

 

[bodecea]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Well, thank goodness for gun worshippers.

 

[2aguy]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Well, thank goodness for gun worshippers.

I am always curious about how you left wing asshats see the world......who exactly worships guns? We know you guys worship government...and abortion......the one is your god, the other a sacrament in your secular religion....

 

[Sunsettommy]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

Americans use their legal guns to save lives 1.1 million times a year according to the centers for disease control......

More children die on bicycles and in water than in school shootings....so, according to your half ass logic, we need to ban bicycles and swimming.....

Apparently not, since I never claimed we have a "bicycle culture" or a "swimming culture". Nor can you turn on a TV at any hour of any day and immediately find someone riding a bicycle or swimming. Nor is our colloquial language filled with references to bicycles and swimming.

You're not too good at this "thought" stuff are ya. Typical of the Cult.

The Americans "Bicycle Culture," and "Swimming Culture," kills more children than school shootings, and you don't care.......you must want children to die....

Apparently that would be you, since here you are shilling for the glorious wonder of school shootings. Meanwhile neither bicycles nor swimming were invented for the express purpose of killing people.

Sucks to be you but you should have thought of that before you came out on the side of death from your dank basement in mom's cellar where you never have to deal with the real world.

Now you are flailing around with RED HERRINGS (A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question.[1] It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion.), since he never in any way showed he was happy about school shootings, his FIRST post, the one you keep ignoring showed that school shootings have dropped dramatically, since the 1990's, this means GOOD news, which you didn't acknowledge at all.

This is why leftists lose the Gun control argument so often, they ignore evidence to instead follow ideology, it is why their replies are often shallow and stupid. No one here wants to see mass shootings, NO ONE!

 

[Pogo]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Well, thank goodness for gun worshippers.

 

[Pogo]

Ah, the Monday Morning Strawman thread.

The fact that we even have THE PHRASE "school shooting", and it's understood what the phrase means, tells us they're WAY too common.

The wages of Gun Culture. Own it.

Americans use their legal guns to save lives 1.1 million times a year according to the centers for disease control......

More children die on bicycles and in water than in school shootings....so, according to your half ass logic, we need to ban bicycles and swimming.....

Apparently not, since I never claimed we have a "bicycle culture" or a "swimming culture". Nor can you turn on a TV at any hour of any day and immediately find someone riding a bicycle or swimming. Nor is our colloquial language filled with references to bicycles and swimming.

You're not too good at this "thought" stuff are ya. Typical of the Cult.

The Americans "Bicycle Culture," and "Swimming Culture," kills more children than school shootings, and you don't care.......you must want children to die....

Apparently that would be you, since here you are shilling for the glorious wonder of school shootings. Meanwhile neither bicycles nor swimming were invented for the express purpose of killing people.

Sucks to be you but you should have thought of that before you came out on the side of death from your dank basement in mom's cellar where you never have to deal with the real world.

Now you are flailing around with RED HERRINGS (A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question.[1] It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion.), since he never in any way showed he was happy about school shootings, his FIRST post, the one you keep ignoring showed that school shootings have dropped dramatically, since the 1990's, this means GOOD news, which you didn't acknowledge at all.

This is why leftists lose the Gun control argument so often, they ignore evidence to instead follow ideology, it is why their replies are often shallow and stupid. No one here wants to see mass shootings, NO ONE!

You're dumb as a box o rocks aintchya.

NOBODY CLAIMED school shootings were up. OP pulled that out of his ass just so he could knock it down.

THAT'S WHAT A FUCKING STRAWMAN IS.

 

[Sunsettommy]

Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

---
"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Well, thank goodness for gun worshippers.

Gee this is a classic worthless reply, since I don't own or have any firearms at all. I go by evidence, data and logic, to be a supporter of the second amendment.

Where is your cogent reply? I haven't seen one yet, does it bother you that school shootings have dropped dramatically since the 1990;s, isn't that good news worth celebrating, on the way to ZERO school shootings in the future?

 

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Here we have the myth of the school shooting as common occurrence.......and it is just that, a myth.....anti-gunners need it, there is nothing better for their gun banning and confiscation schemes than dead children.....but the truth is...school shootings are extremely rare and are not on the rise...

Study Proves Mass Shootings Are NOT Becoming More Common

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the '90s

Researchers: Schools Shootings Not on the Rise, Schools Safer Than in the ’90s
'There is not an epidemic of school shootings'

Researchers from Northeastern University said on Monday that school shootings are not on the rise over the past decade and remain rare events.

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern, and Emma Fridel, who is currently completing her doctorate at the school, revealed this week that their research indicates school shootings remain "incredibly rare events." Their findings, which are set to be published later this year, indicate that shooting incidents which involve students have actually declined since the 1990s.

The research team determined that, "on average, mass murders occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school."

They said the rate of students killed in school shootings is only a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.

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"There is not an epidemic of school shootings," Fox said.

The researchers studied data from a wide variety of sources including 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 an NYPD report on active shooters. They concluded that, on average, of the 55 million school children in the United States, 10 per year have been killed by gunfire while at school over the last 25 years. In their research they found only five cases over the past 35 years where AR-15s and similar rifles were used by the attackers.

"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.

The researchers said that more kids are killed each year in accidents involving pools and bicycles than from school shootings.


They said they supported ideas like banning bump-fire stocks or raising the age for certain rifle purchases but did not believe they would prevent school shootings. They also said active shooter drills did more to alarm students than protect them, and things like installing metal detectors or requiring ID cards for entry have not prevented shootings in the past.

"I'm not a big fan of making schools look like fortresses, because they send a message to kids that the bad guy is coming for you—if we're surrounding you with security, you must have a bull's-ey

This would be good news for normal Americans.....it is horrible news for anti-gun extremist democrats....dead children are the one tool they need to push their gun control agenda......

Well, thank goodness for gun worshippers.

Gee this is a classic worthless reply, since I don't own or have any firearms at all. I go by evidence, data and logic, to be a supporter of the second amendment.

Where is your cogent reply? I haven't seen one yet, does it bother you that school shootings have dropped dramatically since the 1990;s, isn't that good news worth celebrating, on the way to ZERO school shootings in the future?

Without healing the sicko gun fetish culture? Pfffffffffffffffffffffft. Say that reminds me I've got a bridge for sale. New tires.

 

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Americans use their legal guns to save lives 1.1 million times a year according to the centers for disease control......

More children die on bicycles and in water than in school shootings....so, according to your half ass logic, we need to ban bicycles and swimming.....

Apparently not, since I never claimed we have a "bicycle culture" or a "swimming culture". Nor can you turn on a TV at any hour of any day and immediately find someone riding a bicycle or swimming. Nor is our colloquial language filled with references to bicycles and swimming.

You're not too good at this "thought" stuff are ya. Typical of the Cult.

The Americans "Bicycle Culture," and "Swimming Culture," kills more children than school shootings, and you don't care.......you must want children to die....

Apparently that would be you, since here you are shilling for the glorious wonder of school shootings. Meanwhile neither bicycles nor swimming were invented for the express purpose of killing people.

Sucks to be you but you should have thought of that before you came out on the side of death from your dank basement in mom's cellar where you never have to deal with the real world.

Now you are flailing around with RED HERRINGS (A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question.[1] It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion.), since he never in any way showed he was happy about school shootings, his FIRST post, the one you keep ignoring showed that school shootings have dropped dramatically, since the 1990's, this means GOOD news, which you didn't acknowledge at all.

This is why leftists lose the Gun control argument so often, they ignore evidence to instead follow ideology, it is why their replies are often shallow and stupid. No one here wants to see mass shootings, NO ONE!

You're dumb as a box o rocks aintchya.

NOBODY CLAIMED school shootings were up. OP pulled that out of his ass just so he could knock it down.

THAT'S WHAT A FUCKING STRAWMAN IS.

You ignored the definition of a strawman, since you keep making strawman replies, you are truly stupid as hell today. You haven't once made an actual counterpoint to anything in the thread or the article that disturbs you so much.

Not once have I or 2amguy said school shootings were up, only you talked about it as if that was relevant, when it didn't exist.