Lies, Damned Lies, and School Shootings Statistics

Maybe it’s time for President Trump to federalize school shootings, ordering the FBI to keep and analyze reliable stats about school shootings, going back at least to Columbine. From this, we’ll be able to draw conclusions about these historical shootings. 

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In addition, it would prevent local police chiefs – like Nashville’s – to stonewall conclusions about shootings, especially done regarding trans-identified murderers.

Factors to study about school shootings – perhaps especially parochial school shootings – is to see how many of them are done by former students with gender dysphoria who have been treated with hormone-altering and other drugs. 

With enough accurate information, perhaps the FBI, the local police, the schools and the public can draw some conclusions and begin protecting schools in advance.

Ed Morrissey

IIRC, the FBI collates data given to them by police departments rather than track these incidents independently. That led to the media's claim that crime rates had fallen significantly -- which ABC's David Muir offered as a rebuttal in their presidential debate last year -- when in fact the drop was attributable to the FBI not getting data from previously reporting urban police departments. 

Still, maybe it would be better for the FBI or the DoJ to track these cases on their own. If lawmakers insist on legislating the issue, then let's get accurate data on the trend ... and the nature of the perps. 

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