Despite Heightened Fear Of School Shootings, It's Not A Growing Epidemic
The Parkland shooting last month has energized student activists, who
are angry and frustrated over gun violence. But it's also contributed to
the impression that school shootings are a growing epidemic in America.
In truth, they're not.
"Schools are safer today than they had been in previous decades," says
James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University
who has studied the phenomenon of mass murder since the 1980s.
What is epidemic is:
Copycats wanting their day in the paper.
News organizations that are hyped up about this.
The general system that ignores these problem-kids in the first place.
Both parents and schools kick them down the road hoping all will be
better later. And it isn't.
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