Most of the widely cited epidemic statistic of 235 school shootings....never happened The actual figure is 11 While even one school shooting is too many the real figure is more in line with statistics demonstrating a decline in violent crimehttps://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent …
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@NPR for publishing this when killing a story with facts that would be unpopular with its readership would be much easier3 replies 4 retweets 42 likesShow this thread
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I suspect guns are probably the issue where the most Dems are kinda meh with no strong feelings, and just nod along with the outrage after every mass shooting. If you asked people what one partisan issue they’d be willing to drop, this would likely be it for me.
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