Incorrect. The column was written prior to the massacre. YOU made the correlation in your first post.
Somehow, you as a Christian(?) associate mass killing with Christianity.
Your silly "analysis" connecting low homicide rates with atheism were pathetic, and could be refuted by the worst student in a high school statistics class.
From the original article:
“The truth is, since school prayer was banned in 1962, there has been a meteoric rise in the rates of violent crime...”
Murder rate nationally is about the same today as it was in 1962. Granted violent crime has gone up since 1962, but it has trended downward since its peak in 1991. Has more school prayer gone on since then, or did school prayer end immediately after 1962 to acocunt for the growth during that time? Remember I am not trying to prove causality about establishment causing violent crime, I am only arguing that stopping it is not correlated with violent crime. The much more ambitious claim is being made by your article.
It is a darn shame about statistics. If you cannot show correlation, then you sure can’t show causation. I have shown no correlation for the claim, therefore you can’t claim causality.