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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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SGT (Join to see) thanks for the read/share.

Good points of interest: it's complex: Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2018/05/are-school-shootings-a-mountain-or-a-molehill/#ixzz5GLO8cXeV
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.S.A. -(Ammoland.com)- The things we don’t know are fascinating. Judging by recent news reports, we should keep our children at home so they won’t be killed by a crazy kid with a gun at school. On the other hand and again judging by the news reports, we should send our kids to a “gun free” school simply to get them out of any home that might have a legally owned gun on the premises. Neither claim is true, but they are entirely understandable if you reached the wrong conclusion by watching the “news”. The media lies to us as they struggle to sell advertising. Let’s look at the facts, and I’ll show you my sources at the end of the article.

27 students and staff were killed by mass murderers in US schools this year. That is revolting. It shocks us as it should. It is also true that we don’t know how to make sense of that number. There are almost 327 million of us here in the United States. 57 million attend school in grades K through 12. Is 27 murders a large number or a small one? How many of us die by other causes?

Let’s put the numbers into perspective. 156 people were murdered by gunfire in Chicago this year. There are only 9.6 million people living in the Chicago metropolitan area. It is an interesting comparison, but the results are shocking.

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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Thank you for the mention Joe, have a great afternoon brother.
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Sgt Randy Wilber
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I agree the article title needs changed # but great info in the piece.
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