Since 2013 a school shooting happens in the USA every 13 days.
What will you do to make it
#OneMoreDay without gun violence?
I'll follow my comments with a link and a C&P of the article that questions some of the school shooting statistics. To get those numbers, people are including suicides and gang members who shoot at each other on school grounds at night when students are not there, and a number of other questionable methods used to get a higher average.
I would home school my children. I would keep them away from schools with drug and gang problems. I would move to a safer neighborhood, a suburban neighborhood. I would teach them survival skills. If a maniac starts shooting, it won't help you or others to cry and ask for mercy. You have to risk your life and take aggressive action, even if it means losing your life to save others. Last night my wife and I attended a performance by a Magician named Michael Carbonaro. It was sold out. We were searched before entering the theatre. Still, it would have been a target rich environment for a madman. Therefore, I briefly discussed an emergency exit plan with my wife. I will probably avoid movie theaters from now on. Buses and trains may become targets in the U.S., as they are in Europe and Israel.
Crazed gunmen look for defenseless victims, places where guns are not allowed. Avoid those places. Buy, and learn to use a hand gun. Get a permit. Take a class on self-defense. Learn how to protect yourself, your family, and other innocent people. When you see someone suspicious, say something. Call 911. Warn people. Our world is ruled by violence. Be aware of your surroundings and reduce your exposure to risk.
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How Common Are School Shootings? | Cato @ Liberty
[h=1]How Common Are School Shootings?[/h] By
Jason Bedrick
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Schools are stocking up on
M16s and modified grenade launchers and holding drills involving
shooting blanks in middle and high school hallways, but is the risk really worth the expense and possibility of preemptively traumatizing children?
Groups like Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety argue that our nation’s schools are dangerous, claiming that there have been 74 school shootings since the Sandy Hook massacre in December 2012 in an infographic that went viral earlier this summer. But a
closer look at their numbers revealed that they artificially inflated the statistic by including suicides, accidents, incidents related to criminal activity (e.g. - drug dealing or robbery), and incidents that took place outside of school hours or were unconnected to members of any school community. Moreover, half of those incidents took place on college campuses. Since Sandy Hook, the actual number of K-12 school shootings in which the shooter intended to commit mass murder has been ten—a far cry from the “one school shooting per week” that President Obama
claimed back in June.
Surely even one such incident is too high, but with
nearly 106,000 public and private schools in the U.S., there were shootings at only 0.009% of schools since December 2012. According to the National Center for Education Statistics’ 2013 “
Indicators of School Crime and Safety” report, from the 1992-93 school year until the 2010-11 school year, there were between 11 and 34 homicides of youths ages 5-18 at schools each year (including attacks with weapons other than firearms), with an average of about 23 homicides per year. Comparing that to NCES’s enrollment statistics, about 0.000044% of public and private K-12 students were killed at school per year between 1992-93 and 2010-11. That’s about one out of every 2,273,000 students per year. By contrast, the odds of being hit by lightning in a given year is one out of 700,000 according to
National Geographic.
