{"id":8226,"date":"2022-06-28T19:13:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2022-06-28T19:13:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:13:50","slug":"pro-gun-rights-lawmakers-want-to-arm-teachers-but-theres-little-evidence-these-programs-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8226","title":{"rendered":"Pro-gun rights lawmakers want to arm teachers, but there\u2019s little evidence these programs work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“There is no evidence supporting arguments from pro-gun rights lawmakers that training and equipping teachers with guns will make students safer. A 2019 study<\/a> by researchers at the University of Toledo and Ball State University reviewed 18 years of US school security measures \u2014 including placing more armed teachers in school \u2014 and found no evidence of reduced gun violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denise Gottfredson, a criminologist at the University of Maryland, called the policy of arming school personnel \u201cill-advised.\u201d Beyond substantial research linking gun accessibility and increased gun violence, firearms brought into school by educators \u201cmight be fired accidentally, the teachers who carry them might deliberately use them for unintended purposes, and, even more likely, the guns might end up in the hands of students,\u201d Gottfredson told<\/a> Reuters.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The US is not the only country<\/a> in the world where mass shootings have happened, but it is unique in how frequently these mass shootings occur within its borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his widely-cited 2016 study<\/a>, Adam Lankford, a professor at the University of Alabama, analyzed data on global mass shootings between 1966 and 2012 and found that 31 percent of perpetrators in mass shootings worldwide during that time were American.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adjusting for variables, Lankford also found that a country\u2019s rate of gun ownership correlated with the odds of it having mass shootings. When it comes to gun ownership, the US is practically in a league of its own: the US population only makes up less than 5 percent of the global population yet Americans account for about 45 percent<\/a> of the world\u2019s gun ownership. It is estimated that US civilians own a total of 393 million firearms<\/a> \u2014 meaning there are more guns in civilian hands than people.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/5\/29\/23145515\/pro-gun-lawmakers-arm-teachers-violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“There is no evidence supporting arguments from pro-gun rights lawmakers that training and equipping teachers with guns will make students safer. A 2019 study by researchers at the University of Toledo and Ball State University reviewed 18 years of US school security measures \u2014 including placing more armed teachers in school \u2014 and found no evidence of reduced gun violence.<\/p>\n

Denise Gottfredson, a criminologist at the University of Maryland, called the policy of arming school personnel \u201cill-advised.\u201d Beyond substantial research linking gun accessibility and increased gun violence, firearms brought into school by educators \u201cmight be fired accidentally, the teachers who carry them might deliberately use them for unintended purposes, and, even more likely, the guns might end up in the hands of students,\u201d Gottfredson told Reuters.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The US is not the only country in the world where mass shootings have happened, but it is unique in how frequently these mass shootings occur within its borders.<\/p>\n

In his widely-cited 2016 study, Adam Lankford, a professor at the University of Alabama, analyzed data on global mass shootings between 1966 and 2012 and found that 31 percent of perpetrators in mass shootings worldwide during that time were American.<\/p>\n

Adjusting for variables, Lankford also found that a country\u2019s rate of gun ownership correlated with the odds of it having mass shootings. When it comes to gun ownership, the US is practically in a league of its own: the US population only makes up less than 5 percent of the global population yet Americans account for about 45 percent of the world\u2019s gun ownership. It is estimated that US civilians own a total of 393 million firearms \u2014 meaning there are more guns in civilian hands than people.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[356,113,407,112,406,109,1656,357,939],"class_list":["post-8226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-education","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-deaths","tag-gun-laws","tag-gun-violence","tag-guns","tag-massacre","tag-school","tag-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8227,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}