Gun violence is schools is a quarter what it was 25 years ago, even with the tragic mass shootings in recent years thrown in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Big Left and Big Media have succeeded in convincing a fair number of people that 2+2=5:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Twenty years after the Columbine High School\u00a0shooting<\/a>\u00a0made practicing for armed intruders as routine as fire drills, many\u00a0parents<\/a>\u00a0have only tepid confidence in the ability of schools to stop a gunman, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. If you tell people the sky is falling often and consistently enough, people will start carrying umbrellas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gun violence is schools is a quarter what it was 25 years ago, even with the tragic mass shootings in recent years thrown in. But Big Left and Big Media have succeeded in convincing a fair number of people that 2+2=5: Twenty years after the Columbine High School\u00a0shooting\u00a0made practicing for armed intruders as routine as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,130,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-tc-media-bias","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71085,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71083\/revisions\/71085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And while most Americans consider schools less safe than they were 20 years ago, the poll finds a majority say schools aren\u2019t at fault for shootings. Bullying, the availability of guns, the internet and video games share more of the blame.
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