”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.

Fox and doctoral student Emma Fridel crunched the numbers, and the results should come as a relief to parents.

First, while multiple-victim shootings in general are on the rise, that's not the case in schools. There's an average of about one a year — in a country with more than 100,000 schools.

"There were more back in the '90s than in recent years," says Fox. "For example, in one school year — 1997-98 — there were four multiple-victim shootings in schools."

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Patently false. Period.

That article and headline were purposely written to elicit the following reaction:

Here’s an excerpt from the article, IMU... curious to hear your thoughts...

Patently false. Period.

Exactly what is false?

Exactly what is false?

You seem to be accusing them of doing something nefarious, except they are counting death statistics the same way we've been doing it for decades.

Number of car accident deaths is reported as a flat number, not a percentage of licensed drivers. Number of deaths from lung cancer is a flat number, not a percentage of cigarette smokers. You're the one trying to specify the narrative. This is helping you swallow the number of children murdered in schools.

"YEAH BUT!"

Yeah but you want to go to the shooting range to rip off 150 rounds on a Saturday. I get it. Fuck the children. #2A

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The following statement:



In 2018 a service member is 17x more likely to be killed than a child at school. Thus, 2018 has been deadlier to service members than schoolchildren.

This is relatively simple stuff to figure out on one’s own. Stop being so easily manipulated.

The figures for 2018 do not suggest schools are more dangerous than combat zones. After all, there are more than 50 million students in public elementary and high schools and only about 1.3 million members of the armed forces. So far in 2018, a member of the military has been about 40 times as likely to be killed as someone is to die in a school shooting, including Keller’s revised figures.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Except you can choose not to serve. Going to K-12 is a requirement.

But I'm used to the 'murdered schoolchildren is the cost of doing business' argument by now.

Eventually it will be the child of someone that you know, or your own, and maybe that will be what it takes to change some minds.

On a board with some real top-end prizewinners, nice work on starting one of the more insipid and asinine threads in some time.

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On a board with some real top-end prizewinners, nice work on starting one of the more insipid and asinine threads in some time.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

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