It may seem so, with media attention focused on a spate of school shootings. In fact, school shootings are extremely rare. Even including the more common violence that is gang-related or dispute-related, only 12 to 20 homicides a year occur in the 100,000 schools in the U.S. In general, school assaults and other violence have dropped by nearly half in the past decade. - MSNBC -------- An interesting article
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I agree that the article is very interesting. All 10 myths are an eye opener. Before reading about them, they all seemed like ideal facts. I sometime wonder if all the media attention about the shootings just give students and outsiders more of a notion to commit such shootings. It's horrible about the senseless killings, but tooooo much media attention could make it worse.
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Most attackers had access to weapons, and had used them prior to the attack. Most of them acquired their guns from home "
Don't suppose the gun lobby would even notice that. And people wonder why there are so many shootings in the USA when guns are so widely owned ? Americans have no idea just how extraordinary the quoted statement sounds to anyone British. (Why would anyone have a gun at home? Why would anyone think to have a gun at all? )
If anyone's wondering : our kids have to knife people instead
And people wonder why there are so many shootings in the USA when guns are so widely owned ? Americans have no idea just how extraordinary the quoted statement sounds to anyone British. (Why would anyone have a gun at home? Why would anyone think to have a gun at all? 
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