THE RECORD – AT 10:51 A.M. ET:  Any school shooting is a tragedy, and a single victim is an awful tragedy.  However, we must deal with the menace intelligently, and put school shootings in perspective, before we start making serious mistakes.  From the Washington Times: 

Despite the horror of the high school massacre in Florida, U.S. schools overall are safer today than they were in the early 1990s, and there is not an epidemic of such shootings, a new academic study is reporting.

Researchers at Northeastern University say mass school shootings are extremely rare, that shootings involving students have been declining since the 1990s, and four times as many children were killed in schools in the early 1990s than today.

“There is not an epidemic of school shootings,” said James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern. He said more children die each year from pool drownings or bicycle accidents.

There are about 55 million school children in the U.S., the study said, and over the past 25 years, about 10 students on average per year were killed by gunfire at school.

The researchers used data collected by USA Today, the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Report, Congressional Research Service, Gun Violence Archive, Stanford Geospatial Center and Stanford Libraries, Mother Jones, Everytown for Gun Safety, and a New York City Police Department report on active shooters.

COMMENT:  James Alan Fox is one of the country's leading experts in murder, and his comments are worth considering.  Please read the whole article.

One of the things that defines the political left is a refusal to look at the results of its own policies.  The left is not so much a political force as a religion, and an orthodox religion at that.  You have to accept it all to stay a member of the faith.  In gun matters, as in all other matters, the left will fall back on ideological correctness, and never look at the result.

February 28,  2018