SOURCE: https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-percentage-mass-shootings-happen-gun-free-amanda-prestigiacomo
SOURCE: https://slowfacts.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/how-we-stopped-mass-murderers-time-after-time/
Posted on 09/10/2023 2:01:43 PM PDT by ammodotcom
• There have been 2,646 school shooting incidents in the U.S. since 1966. Of those, 2,205 (94%) occurred after the 1990 School Zone Safety Act (Amended in 1995). • There are 1,325 total State Gun Laws per this 2022 report. • The Federal government has been enacting Federal Firearm regulations since 1934. • The correlation between population density and school shootings is more profound in population density than in firearm legislation. • There is no standard “School shooting” definition in the U.S. The Secret Service defines targeted attacks, while most data includes incidents when a firearm is brandished, fired, or a bullet hits school property. • There were 238 school shooting incidents during the National Assault Weapons ban, 293 in the decade before, and 347 in the decade after. • 62% of school shootings (as defined) occurred during non-school hours (1970-2022). • Firearms were used in 61% of targeted school attacks, and 39% used knives between 2008 & 2017.
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It’s tragic; people are tired of seeing the senseless loss of innocent lives in educational settings. Despite mounting gun control laws on the Federal and state level, school-related shootings continue to rise (2023 being the highest year yet, with 388 school shootings in only six months). Regardless of political affiliation or thoughts on well-regulated militias and the right to bear arms, one thing is clear; what we’ve been doing for the past forty years isn’t working.
Each school shooting incident in America reflects one thing, children are vulnerable. Schools tend to be easy targets while simultaneously producing mentally ill individuals with an unstoppable intent to harm others.
Unfortunately, we still have a lot to learn about school shootings. There are a lot of unanswered questions. But what we can do is investigate the changes between societal shifts and legislation over the years and spark meaningful conversations about stopping school shootings. Of course, the clock is ticking down to the next horrific headline, so we need to start these meaningful conversations now.
SOURCE: https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-percentage-mass-shootings-happen-gun-free-amanda-prestigiacomo
SOURCE: https://slowfacts.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/how-we-stopped-mass-murderers-time-after-time/
I attended grade school in the 1950s in a 2-room country school. There was one teacher in each room, and no administrators except for the volunteer school board.
We had a strict gun control rule. “No guns were allowed in the school, unless they were unloaded and left in the coat room.” We had no problems with school shootings,
I want to see how many are this one:
“a firearm is brandished, fired, or a bullet hits school property.”
In Detroit, Chicago and other cesspools there are many drive-by, road rage and revenge gang shootings that happen to be adjacent to schools. Chicago has 647 public schools for instance.
Dems think hundreds of out of control school shooters are on the loose.
I was in HS and college during the 70s and students would park in the school parking lot leaving their guns and ammo in their unlocked vehicles with the windows rolled down. No one thought a thing about it.
The problem ramped up 25 years ago with Columbine HS when mentally ill students were allowed to attend school and not get the proper treatment. Wacky admin and teachers don’t help these days. The “troubled” students now have minders who follow them around all day with nothing more than walkie talkies. Sad we have to put up with such and now have armed security. Public schools have gone down the toilet the past few decades. But more so, parents aren’t being responsible parents. It starts at home.
***The problem ramped up 25 years ago with Columbine HS when mentally ill students were allowed to attend school and not get the proper treatment.****
BINGO!
In the 1950s, along with most mass murderers in the last 40 years would have been locked up in a padded cell in a mental hospital before they went on their rampage.
That is, until the governor of California (California Gov Edmund Brown) decided to start closing the hospitals down and dump the crazies onto the streets. (Yes, he was a Democrat, followed by Reagan(R) and Gov Moonbeam)
Today, the crazies can legally buy firearms because they are now considered “sane” even though they are crazy as a loon.
The anti-freedom anti-gunners answer is always the same. More laws that make it harder and more expensive for the law abiding to own and carry firearms.
This is a rare instance where I support schools being “gun free” if that means other than carry of firearms by authorized persons.
The same ghetto thugs who shoot at each other in the street are the same angry “parents” who go running into the school every time their ghetto thug child gets a suspension or a well deserved F. I would not want them legal carrying into the school.
>This is a rare instance where I support schools being “gun free” if that means other than carry of firearms by authorized persons.
While you’re looking at the worst-scenario to think of rules for all, what you’re proposing is (and works presently as) removing 2A for all law-abiding parents.
If I drop my kid off at school, there’s an exception where if I don’t leave my car I’m not a criminal; but if I have to step outside for any reason, pow, crime. Instant removal of CCW permit as well. Since dropoff and pickup occurs daily, that effectively means no carry for parents.
And, of course, the ghetto thugs don’t give a rat about legal carry and if they intend to pop a cap at school they will. So; what you’re supporting is the opposite of what you intend.
Eliminating citizens’ ability to defend their property certainly does wonders for the ruling elites’ forever-war on the middle class.
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