Debunking the myths of school massacres Facts about mass killings
John Fund in his DECEMBER 16, 2012 article “The Facts about Mass Shootings, It’s time to address mental health and gun-free zones” reports, “A few things you won’t hear about from the saturation coverage of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre: Mass shootings are no more common than they have been in past decades, despite the impression given by the media."
“In fact, the high point for mass killings in the U.S. was 1929, according to criminologist Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Incidents of mass murder in the U.S. declined from 42 in the 1990s to 26 in the first decade of this century. The chances of being killed in a mass shooting are about what they are for being struck by lightning.”
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg joyously attacks for his gun control agenda before the bodies of those innocent children are in their graves. He deceptively declares, “We are the only industrialized country that has this problem.”
John Fund points out, “Until the Newtown horror, the three worst K–12 school shootings ever had taken place in either Britain or Germany.”
China has had numerous mass killings in schools. They weren’t carried out with guns though. Little children were stabbed, hacked and pounded brutally with knives, cleavers and hammers. (See Wikipedia, School Attacks in China 2010 to 2012)! By Bloomberg’s view he would ban knives, cleavers and hammers. Then bats, rocks and sticks would be next.
Bloomberg is certainly selective in creating his hysteria. He sensationalizes the issue to aid his agenda of gun control. Why? Changing the rules, hi-jacking another term as mayor and outlawing large drinks of soda, Bloomberg exhibits characteristics of the tyrant gun ownership was designed by the Founding Fathers to offset! How dictatorial would he become if he succeeded? For Bloomberg it is about power and control, not protecting citizens!
Fund goes on to argue, “Almost all of the public-policy discussion about Newtown has focused on a debate over the need for more gun control. In reality, gun control in a country that already has 200 million privately owned firearms is likely to do little to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals. We would be better off debating two taboo subjects — the laws that make it difficult to control people with mental illness and the growing body of evidence that “gun-free” zones, which ban the carrying of firearms by law-abiding individuals, don’t work.”
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