and school shootings are not more common than they used to be, researchers say.

The deadly school shooting this month in Parkland, Florida, has ignited national outrage and calls for action on gun reform. But while certain policies may help decrease gun violence in general, it’s unlikely that any of them will prevent mass school shootings, according to James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern.

“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 occur between 20 and 30 times per year, and about one of those incidents on average takes place at a school.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/sc...cher-says/

Schools are the safest place for kids to be. It just isn't the problem people work themselves up to believing it is.

Seems the only information people aren't getting in the information age is that we get all the information now that we didn't in the past. They falsely think an old problem is a new one. It's not.

And it's decreasing, not increasing.

Believe this is the same report that said all the talk of detectors and hardening and other nonsense do little more than frighten kids.

So, I didn't want to be the guy saying we're overreacting right after a shooting, but yeah, I figured as much.