MaverickNH
NES Member
While I review manuscripts for some medical journals, I never get the juicy ones. I would have tried to rejected this one, for sure.
This one finds schools with armed SROs have 3-times the odds of persons killed and concludes:
"An armed officer on the scene was the number one factor associated with increased casualties after the perpetrators’ use of assault rifles or submachine guns. The well-documented weapons effect explains that the presence of a weapon increases aggression. Whenever firearms are present, there is room for error, and even highly trained officers get split-second decisions wrong. Prior research suggests that many school shooters are actively suicidal, intending to die in the act, so an armed officer may be an incentive rather than a deterrent."
The authors suspiciously don’t sort shooters killed from their statistics. FBI’s 20yr summary over the same 1980-2019 period https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents-20-year-review-2000-2019-060121.pdf finds, of 345 shooters, 191 (55%) were killed (suicide, police, non-LEO). The authors would have us believe these school shooters might have just committed suicide elsewhere had schools not had armed SROs.
ARs and SMGs take top billing, with ~13-times the odds of persons killed, compared to handguns at ~5-times the odds. I don’t recall and SMGs used in US school shootings 1980-2019 - maybe a semiauto Uzi somewhere?
The defund-the-police actions resulted in a lot of SROs cancelled from schools as well as a decline in policing in general. The progressives are just dying, literally, to prove that were don’t needed arms to quell violent crime. If they weren’t killing us too to prove their point, I’d be OK with that…
Presence of Armed School Officials and Fatal and Nonfatal Gunshot Injuries During Mass School Shootings, United States, 1980-2019
This cross-sectional study examines whether there is an association between having an armed guard at school and the prevalence of deaths and injuries during school shootings and attempted shootings.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This one finds schools with armed SROs have 3-times the odds of persons killed and concludes:
"An armed officer on the scene was the number one factor associated with increased casualties after the perpetrators’ use of assault rifles or submachine guns. The well-documented weapons effect explains that the presence of a weapon increases aggression. Whenever firearms are present, there is room for error, and even highly trained officers get split-second decisions wrong. Prior research suggests that many school shooters are actively suicidal, intending to die in the act, so an armed officer may be an incentive rather than a deterrent."
The authors suspiciously don’t sort shooters killed from their statistics. FBI’s 20yr summary over the same 1980-2019 period https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents-20-year-review-2000-2019-060121.pdf finds, of 345 shooters, 191 (55%) were killed (suicide, police, non-LEO). The authors would have us believe these school shooters might have just committed suicide elsewhere had schools not had armed SROs.
ARs and SMGs take top billing, with ~13-times the odds of persons killed, compared to handguns at ~5-times the odds. I don’t recall and SMGs used in US school shootings 1980-2019 - maybe a semiauto Uzi somewhere?
The defund-the-police actions resulted in a lot of SROs cancelled from schools as well as a decline in policing in general. The progressives are just dying, literally, to prove that were don’t needed arms to quell violent crime. If they weren’t killing us too to prove their point, I’d be OK with that…