More kids die playing football than from mass school shootings

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They don't care about kids, they care about their agenda.

500,000 kids starved to death in Iraq, Madeline Albright accepted. Where was Dick's Sporting Goods then?

Haven't you heard? "It is as worth it." /s

Makes sick just typing that garbage.

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Haven't you heard? "It is as worth it." /s

Makes sick just typing that garbage.

Yeah. I know it's early but it's about time for a drink.

Gotta be fat, fed, and well drunk to properly appreciate this circus.

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Blimp

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Blimp

for Sporting good safety.

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I became mayor of San Francisco as the product of assassination, and I’ve watched with horror as more and more mass shootings have rocked our nation - Dianne Fienstein.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6597157

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.

Fridel and Fox used data collected by USA Today, the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Report, Congressional Research Service, Gun Violence Archive, Stanford Geospatial Center and Stanford Libraries, Mother Jones, Everytown for Gun Safety, and a NYPD report on active shooters.

Their research also finds that shooting incidents involving students have been declining since the 1990s.

Four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 1990s than today, Fox said.

“There is not an epidemic of school shootings,” he said, adding that more kids are killed each year from pool drownings or bicycle accidents. There are around 55 million school children in the United States, and on average over the past 25 years, about 10 students per year were killed by gunfire at school, according to Fox and Fridel’s research.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/sch...s-fewer-1990s/

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Bump

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Precisely why we need a two-helmet law

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Looking at this picture that some addlepated freedom hater is posing with, about how guns have more rights than her meathole, made me think of this:

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h/t to @phill4paul

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NPR: Parkland Attack Was Horrible but There Is No School Shooting Epidemic

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...s-no-epidemic/

by AWR Hawkins 16 Mar 2018

On March 15, NPR noted the heinous nature of Florida’s Parkland school shooting but quickly added that claims school shootings are at epidemic levels are false.

NPR’s observation is drawn from the work of Northeastern University’s James Alan Fox, who demonstrates that there were more “multiple victim” school shootings during the 1990’s than now.

According to NPR, Fox shows that “in the 1992-93 school year, about 0.55 students per million were shot and killed; in 2014-15, that rate was closer to 0.15 per million.”

He demonstrates that the U.S. suffers, on average, one multiple victim shooting per school year. And Fox points out that that means an average of one a year in a nation of over 100,000 schools.

So why do so many Americans believe we have an epidemic of school shootings? Fox believes the answer to that lies in a perception derived from media coverage and other outlets.

He said, “The difference is the impression, the perception that people have. Today we have cell phone recordings of gunfire that play over and over and over again. So it’s that the impression is very different. That’s why people think things are a lot worse now, but the statistics say otherwise.”

Dr. Garen Wintemute, an emergency room physician doing “gun violence” research at University of California, Davis, concurs with Fox. Wintemute said, “Schools are just about the safest place in the world for kids to be. Although each one of them is horrific and rivets the entire nation for a period of time, mass shootings at schools are really very uncommon, and they are not increasing in frequency. What’s changed is how aware we are of them.”

Madysen Pruss is a counselor at Marysville Pilchuck High School, which suffered a mass shooting on October 24, 2014. Yet Pruss says her response to other shootings around the country is to talk to students about “how it’s publicized through social media. So it makes the threat feel greater than it is.”