Due to emotion rather than fact, school shootings receive attention far out of proportion to the actual risk they pose. People admonishing everyone to think about the children would be doing a far greater service focusing on automobile, bicycle, sports, and swimming safety than this. Here are the numbers:
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John Veit
Jan 12, 2013 @ 10:55:38
A paper: WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE MURDER AND SUICIDE? — A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AND SOME DOMESTIC EVIDENCE, was published in Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (pp. 649-694) in the Spring of 2007.
It puts to rest many of the claims and counter claims of both pro and anti gun groups via the use of cold logic and hard facts that cut the legs out from under them.
What is left is a realization that the problem is not simply a gun problem, but a multi faceted situation which does not lend itself to easy resolution by just doing this or that.
Here’s a link to a digest of it: http://www.pointshooting.com/harvard.htm
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John M. Buol Jr.
Jan 12, 2013 @ 10:59:32
More links on this here:
https://firearmusernetwork.com/2012/12/28/harvard-study-gun-control-is-counterproductive/
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