On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:51 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This is an obvious attempt at making the mad man school spree killing > appear to happen more frequently than it actually does. > It does NOT happen frequently. School shootings are kind of like plane crashes...they are extremely rare, but when they happen, they are really devastating. So they get a lot of play, and probably rightfully so...as long as people are able to keep perspective. Put another way, statistically speaking, going to school is still the safest way to get educated :) > Much the same way I hate that the media has people thinking that we are in > the midst of some rash of new gun violence, while gun crimes have gone down > across the board for years now. > Well, yes, violent crimes have been dropping for years now....but I'm not sure the same is true of school shootings. THEY do seem to be increasing in frequency, but not sure accurate stats could be found on that. > The same way that so called assault weapons, which are used in less than 1% > of gun crime, are always attacked by the media. > Probably because they are useless to society, other than to go on killing rampages. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370847 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
