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Tag Archives: schools

School Guns and Non-Disaster

Gun Facts Posted on 2024/05/01 by Editorial Team2024/12/26
Accidental Discharges at Schools by Perp Category, 2014 through 2021

“Teachers carrying guns … “ Want to start an argument? Utter that line at a cocktail party. But is it a problem, a solution, or both? As for as being problematic, it largely isn’t. Takeaway The number of gun discharges on campuses in almost immeasurably small. Most of the problems are police/security having accidental discharges. These account for 0.04 incidents per year per state. The Iffy Data One of the gun control advocacy groups created a “scare the public” web page listing instances of adults with a gun on “school” grounds. We put quotes there because more than a few of the schools on the activist organization’s roster were vocational schools and colleges. When discussing “arming teachers,” the public tends to visualize this as pertaining to K–12 schools only. But that isn’t the only defect in their raw data. They extracted the tally of incidents from the Gun Violence Archive … Continue reading →

Posted in Children and Guns | Tagged resource officers, schools, teachers | Leave a reply

School Shooting Database and Propaganda

Gun Facts Posted on 2018/10/14 by Editorial Team2023/05/10
On-campus shooting grades 9-12 1970-2018

What you name something is very important. One might look upon their congressman and say “politician”. Someone else might look upon the same representative and say “insufferable, deranged, syphilitic git”. Both might be accurate. Important then is the “School Shooting Database” hosted by the Federal Government as part of the Department of Homeland Defense. The phrase “school shooting” creates in the mind of the reader some very specific notions. For the average American, it means mass homicide events like Parkland, Sandy Hook and Columbine. It does not mean a stray bullet from a inter-gang confrontation two blocks away at two in the morning. Honest Disclosure, Noble Purpose, Clumsy Word Use Per the project’s web site, “The K-12 School Shooting Database research project is a widely inclusive database that documents each and every instance a gun is brandished, is fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of … Continue reading →

Posted in Children and Guns, School Shootings | Tagged children, guns, schools | 7 Replies

Only Scattered School Shootings

Gun Facts Posted on 2014/04/22 by Editorial Team2023/05/10
The scattered infrequency of school shootings

School shootings are actually pretty rare, though you would never know if you listened to gun control groups. USA Today recently illustrated the point, even while attempting to sensationalize the topic. In a story titled “Deadly school shootings since Columbine”, the paper created a timeline showing when such events occurred. I suspect their goal was to make each tragedy easy to find and read about. What it really showed was how infrequent such events are. In the slider bar at page top, there are multi-year gaps between such events.  This matches data from the federal government that noted a low mortality rate and a steadily falling rate of school deaths. This is one point that needs to be stressed: Things have been getting better for the past couple of decades. Violence against children is falling, with the occasional lunatic mass murderer causing angst. Statistically speaking, your child is safer than … Continue reading →

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