‘The Parkland shooting last month has energized student activists, who are angry and frustrated over gun violence. But it's also contributed to the impression that school shootings are a growing epidemic in America.
In truth, they're not.
"Schools are safer today than they had been in previous decades," says James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University who has studied the phenomenon of mass murder since the 1980s.’
Despite Heightened Fear Of School Shootings, It's Not A Growing Epidemic
This undermines both the argument in support of arming teachers and the argument in support of banning AR 15s as a means to decrease school shootings – where such shootings are already on the decrease.
School shootings indeed remain a problem which needs to be addressed – but the ‘solution’ is neither more guns nor more gun regulations.
In truth, they're not.
"Schools are safer today than they had been in previous decades," says James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University who has studied the phenomenon of mass murder since the 1980s.’
Despite Heightened Fear Of School Shootings, It's Not A Growing Epidemic
This undermines both the argument in support of arming teachers and the argument in support of banning AR 15s as a means to decrease school shootings – where such shootings are already on the decrease.
School shootings indeed remain a problem which needs to be addressed – but the ‘solution’ is neither more guns nor more gun regulations.
