Ellison Barber of the Fox News Channel recently reported on revealing findings from a new study on school shootings from 1990 to the present.
Researchers at Northwestern University studied data from varied sources such as the New York City Police Department, the FBI, The Congressional Research Service, and a number of townships and made some surprising findings.
New York magazine, a consistently liberal publication came, to some equally unexpected conclusions:
American children do not “risk their lives” when they show up to school each morning — or at least, not nearly as much as they do whenever they ride in a car, swim in a pool, or put food in their mouths (an American’s lifetime odds of dying in a mass shooting committed in any location is 1 in 11,125; of dying in a car accident is 1 and 491; of drowning is 1 in 1,133; and of choking on food is 1 in 3,461). Criminal victimization in American schools has collapsed in tandem with the overall crime rate, leaving U.S. classrooms safer today than at any time in recent memory.
As America grieves for the fallen students in Florida, it is also faced with sifting through the rhetoric and hyperbole that surrounds such visible events.
Watch the video and learn when the greatest number of school shootings in the U.S. occurred. There is also some great insight into the effectiveness of law enforcement’s past response.
