10 Myths about the Connecticut shootings

[Right and Proud]

I thought this was pretty good.

10 MYTHS ABOUT THE CONNECTICUT SHOOTINGS
http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13183/]Spiked Online

1. School shootings are a regular occurrence in the United States
School shootings are incredibly rare and, statistically, children are safer at school than they are at home, and they are far more likely to be killed by their parents than by anyone else. According to Gary Kleck, a child is more likely to be struck by lightning at school than a bullet. To put it in perspective, the homicide rate at primary schools in the UK – that nation most favoured by gun-control activists - is slightly higher than that in the United States, lest anyone thinks that school violence is endemic to the US. The fact that we have all heard of school shootings does not mean that there is much danger at all of them occurring.

2. Gun controls would have prevented such killings

3. Okay, people kill people, but guns are much more efficient at killing

[ChuckJ]

An interesting post, but number 10 can not be accurately called a myth. There's no way of knowing with certainty if armed teachers would not have prevent this particular massacre.

I would think that a properly trained, armed teacher stood a better chance of preventing it (or lessening the death toll) than an unarmed teacher.

[J P Sousa]

  children are safer at school than they are at home, and they are far more likely to be killed by their parents than by anyone else. 

In Philadelphia it seems children are killed by parents almost every month. I could not find specific statistics for Philadelphia but I did find this website;

http://badbreeders.net/category/killing/

Not just killings but all kinds of bad things done to kids by their parents.
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[Right and Proud]

An interesting post, but number 10 can not be accurately called a myth. There's no way of knowing with certainty if armed teachers would not have prevent this particular massacre.

That's a good point. 

[Strider]

In Philadelphia it seems children are killed by parents almost every month. I could not find specific statistics for Philadelphia but I did find this website;

http://badbreeders.net/category/killing/

Not just killings but all kinds of bad things done to kids by their parents.
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That is the reason libs want guns banned....historically it is known that they think with their emotions without control and not the brain and if they get their hands on a gun they might go batshit and start shooting.

[Ptarmigan]

In Philadelphia it seems children are killed by parents almost every month. I could not find specific statistics for Philadelphia but I did find this website;

http://badbreeders.net/category/killing/

Not just killings but all kinds of bad things done to kids by their parents.
.

There are many infamous cases of parents killing their own children.

[catsmtrods]

Approximately 3,000 a day are killed by their parent in America!