No one will believe it, especially in light of recent events, but schools are actually getting safer. Before I go any further, I am not trying to diminish or downplay the horror that happened in Florida-my heart still breaks for what happened in my state. So while school shootings (and mass shootings in general) are in decline, even one incident is one too many.
Statistics are sort of a harsh mistress. They don't care about emotion or what your views are. You are free of course to ignore them just as you are free to ignore gravity. That doesn't mean that statistics are always right, they could be an outlier or irrelevant to the main point but usually under proper research they are accurate and we can learn a great deal from them.
It doesn't fit the media narrative. The media knows that "if it bleeds, it leads" and with viewership declining they need to step it up a notch. I don't think it's a major conspiracy, they don't sit behind their desks and purposely ignore stories that won't fit their bias (some might, but it's not a major problem) the situation is actually worse. They aren't skeptical of both sides equally. No one wants to give a harsh question to a student who survived a school shooting. No one wants to ask a parent who just lost their kid how gun control would have stopped a shooting. I don't blame the reporters for that. What I blame them for is letting their emotions still dictate their news several days after the shooting.
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