School shootings are extraordinarily rare. Why is fear of them driving policy?

Source: www.debatepolicy.com --- Monday, March 26, 2018
This is in no way meant to diminish school shootings or any shootings for that fact. But guns are inanimate objects, no different than someone using a knife, or a vehicle or a Baseball bat to kill another person. But the statistical odds and the numbers show the FACTS. Just like an image I posted yesterday, there are SO MANY other ways of being killed, and MANY of them preventable, but the liberals want to concentrate solely on their agenda, even if it means completely ignoring other means of folks dying needlessly. -- School shootings are extraordinarily rare. Why is fear of them driving policy? The first recorded school shooting in the United States took place in 1840, when a law student shot and killed his professor at the University of Virginia. But the modern fear dawned on April 20, 1999, when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 classmates and a teacher, and then themselves, at Colorado’s Columbine High. Since then, the murder of children in their classrooms has come to seem common, a regular feature of modern American life, and our fears so strong that we are certain the next horror is sure to come not long after the last. The Education Department reports that roughly 50 million children attend public schools for roughly 180 days per year. Since Columbine, approximately 200 public school students have been shot to death while school was in session, including the recent slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School ...

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