Study: Schools are safer now than in the 90s
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The constant barrage of horrible nightly news stories has tricked people into thinking we're living in a relatively dangerous time. There's been violence and weirdos for centuries, we just didn't hear about them all the time.
First question answered.
Thank you.
Considering that there have been 144 school shootings since the beginning of 2010 and there were a total of 88 school shootings between 1960-1990 (when the gun-free zone was enacted), I would say there is zero correlation in this "decrease". That study does not seem accurate.
Where are you getting your numbers from?
OP posted where his numbers came from.
When you randomly throw out numbers without actual citation to source, it sounds made up.
SMemmett, I could not agree with you more. Especially when it comes to "Local" news coverage. Example, tuned into channel 9 (OKC) tonight and the first three stories were about 1. A guy stealing a car during a test drive; 2. A robbery in Tulsa at an bank/atm; and 3. a guy shoplifting some clothes from Macy's here in OKC.
All of this while crime rates are actually at a 30 yr low. In all my life, with the sole exception of when there's a shoplifting ring in town targeting a bunch of local businesses, I don't think I ever recall a story about a single shoplifter who walked off with $200-$300 in merchandise.
The fact is that every local news outlet in OKC starts off their broadcast with crime stories, no matter how inconsequential or relevant the stories really are. The truly (public interest) stories are typically down the list a bit and are lucky to be covered before the weather, with the last few minutes of the broadcast filled with some "feel good" story about a puppy-rescue or similar.
No wonder Polling shows the majority of people thinking they are living in times of the highest ever crime rates, even though the opposite is true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
I used the noggin the good Lord gave me and counted them. Of course the "study" is talking about mass shootings. A shooting is a shooting when it involves a "gun-free" zone, right?
Next.
It would be interesting to see school shooting data prior to 1990. Because the data does show a strong decline in shootings since early 1990. And that Gun Free School Act made under H.W. Bush does correlate with what appears to be a decline (but was it declining before 1990 and this was just a trend continued??)
Question though: I went to school in the 80s. Unless my memory is significantly flawed, I don’t remember guns being allowed then either.
Don’t rightly know myself.
I don’t remember them being particularly explicitly banned. Certainly don’t remember it being a crime. Maybe it just wasn’t something white surburban kids did then.
Mind you, I’m just asking questions....not making assertions.
I guess that since there are no other sources for this information, we should use a skewed study.
An infinite amount of knowledge you must have.
Two words.
Wikipedia....
Legit.....
Even professed to not know the answer to a question.
Which one of those indicates that I have an infinite amount of knowledge?
I asked a question (several actually). I haven’t made a single proposition in this thread.
You’re the one making the propositions. You’re also the one claiming that “there are no other sources for this information” besides Wikipedia.
To which I again respond.
Wikipedia...
Legit.
You could definitely pull up and park at our high school in 80-82 with a rifle on a gun rack in the back of your truck and no one would bat an eye.
So you think the decline in school shootings from the past should be even more pronounced?
About that time they were banned after a terrible accident (not on campus) in Cushing.
Mass shootings as per the original post, don't know but I'd guess not.
ANY shooting in or around a school, as is being cited in the Wikipedia link, probably.
