The Washington Post isn't even trying anymore when it comes to hiding their anti-gun slant.
As part of their coverage of the anti-gun March for Our Lives, Saturday's Washington Post contained an especially sensationalistic gun stat on the front page; “More Than 187,000 Children Have Been Exposed to Gun Violence At School Since Columbine in 1999.” According to the article, “Beginning with Columbine in 1999, more than 187,000 students attending at least 193 primary or secondary schools have experienced a shooting on campus during school hours, according to a year-long Washington Post analysis.”
Scary stuff. It's outrageous. It's inhumane. It's something that should never happen in America. It's…… a complete lie.
The Washington Post is playing so loose with the facts that by “exposed to gun violence at a school,” they literally just mean “were at a school with a shooting.” If there was a school with 5,000 students, and one was shot, then 5,000 were “exposed to gun violence.” It doesn't matter if they saw or heard the shooting at all. This would be like saying an entire school was exposed to cigarettes because one student decided to light up in the bathroom.
Schools are an odd thing to focus on, given that there's statistically one of the safest places to be in America. Of the 10,000 or so gun murders each year, how many occur within a school? In most years, fewer than 20, and schools are only becoming safer.
According to The Blaze:
A study recently conducted by James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, found that school children are much more safe today than they were in the 1990s. His study found there have been only eight “mass shootings” on schools since 1996 if you define a “mass shooting” as a massacre with more than four deaths, not including the gunman.
“Four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 1990s than today,” Fox said.
In the study, Fox noted that children today are much more likely to die from bicycle accidents or accidental pool drownings than in a mass shooting at school.
Of course, the real reason schools have become central to the gun control debate has nothing to do with the safety of schools, and everything to do with marketing gun control. The majority of gun homicides in America are gang-on-gang shootings concentrated in the inner cities.
That raises a problem though for the Left; even if one were to accept that gun control works (which we don't), how can one create effective gun control policies, when they're only proposing gun control measures to solve 0.1% of gun deaths?
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