The Statistics Are Clear: It’s Not Schools That Are Dangerous

Schools are the sites of fewer than 3 percent of students’ gun homicides; the other 97 percent occur somewhere other than school.

Mike Males
بواسطة Mike Males
Denyse Christian, visits a makeshift memorial with her son Adin Christian, 16, a student at the school, outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting, in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 19, 2018. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

Every day, 42 Americans die in gun homicides, the grim backdrop against which to talk about school shootings. In the three months between the 10 shot dead in Santa Fe, Texas, on Friday, and the 17 in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, around 4,000 Americans lost their lives in firearms homicides. In the initial horror following a school shooting, we

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Mass Shootings Are a Symptom of a Problem That Gun Control Won’t Solve

School shootings are a symptom of a very large, very dangerous problem. They are not simply a symptom of a need for gun control, or a symptom of a lack of accessible mental health services, or a symptom of an over-medicated, desensitized youth population.

Emma Fiala
بواسطة Emma Fiala
Denyse Christian, visits a makeshift memorial with her son Adin Christian, 16, a student at the school, outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting, in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 19, 2018. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

While the outrage and horror being expressed about the most recent mass school shooting that took place on Valentine’s Day in Florida is certainly warranted, the anger is incredibly displaced. Anger, disappointment, fear and sadness are all acceptable and understandable emotions to experience after an event such as this takes place in the United

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US Politician Blames White Culture For Crime Wave In White Communities

Are drunk driving, school shootings, glorification of Italian-American gang violence, child abuse and white-collar crime evidence of the crisis among Whites?

Edward Rhymes
بواسطة Edward Rhymes

Former Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, during a recent speech, decided to dispense some tough love to a predominantly White audience when he voiced his concerns about the state of affairs in American White communities. "The epidemic of Whites students involved in drunk-driving incidents is deplorable," Huntsman said. He cited a CNN

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A Tale Of Two Schools: 2 Radically Different Approaches To Weapons In Schools

At one school, a renaissance is underway. At another, a chemistry student finds herself facing felony charges.

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

In two different parts of the country, two different schools are taking two different approaches to student safety and are getting radically different results. In Roxbury, Mass., Orchard Gardens was built to be a showplace for the Boston neighborhood. When built in 2003, the school had art studios, a dance room, a well-upholstered theater and

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