Schools are safer than almost anywhere ... and still so vulnerable

Four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 1990s than today, Fox said.

“There is not an epidemic of school shootings,” he said, adding that more kids are killed each year from pool drownings or bicycle accidents. There are around 55 million school children in the United States, and on average over the past 25 years, about 10 students per year were killed by gunfire at school, according to Fox and Fridel’s research.

http://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/schools-are-still-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says/

I never felt safe at school, the bullies were always there in the 70s, perhaps they still are. But I never imagined anyone coming with a gun to kill kids.

This is part of the strangeness that is the human experience - we accommodate to the almost routine death of kids from home poison, gang violence and automobile accidents, and lose our collective minds over an unfathomable, un-processable, unacceptable and incredibly rare risk.

"“The thing to remember is that these are extremely rare events, and no matter what you can come up with to prevent it, the shooter will have a workaround,” Fox said, adding that over the past 35 years, there have been only five cases in which someone ages 18 to 20 used an assault rifle in a mass shooting."