The NRA idea that the solution to gun violence is to place armed guards in schools is not only absurd, it is profoundly dangerous. Mass killings are horrific. They are also rare and their number has been fairly constant for many decades. Press coverage draws attention to these events and seldom focuses on the much much larger problem we have with guns in America, which is the massive number of deaths annually caused by legally purchased, properly registered guns. A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in an unintentional shooting, a criminal assault, homicide, or suicide than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense. In the U.S, children under 15 commit suicide with guns at a rate of eleven times the rate of other countries combined. Guns are unwelcome in our schools.
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