This is part of a discussion between Dr. Drew and John Lott of the Crime Prevention Resource Center. The enter video is 20 minutes long, but I have it cued up to the 5 minutes, or so, on school shootings, and public mass shootings.
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We have about 14,000 public schools in the United States that allow teachers and staff to carry out of about 100,000. Some of these schools have had it for decades. And you look at the legislative debates, people will say things. They're worried that uh a teacher may lose their temper and shoot a student or a student may get a hold of a gun and and go and harm others. Are those possible? Yeah, sure they're possible.
But we don't need to guess. You can go and look at all those cases. And looking at the data from 2000 through the end of last year, there's not one single case like that that's occurred. In fact, if you look at the data, what you find is that all the shootings at schools where anybody's been wounded or killed in an attack have all occurred in schools where teachers and staff are banned from being able to go and have guns.
The entire interview is worth the time, if you have 20 minutes.
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