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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What percentage of grade school students in this country are enrolled in public schools?  Not sure if your point is that 95% is high or low without that context.[/quote]

It's irrelevant.  The question would be what percentage of all schools are private schools.  The answer is about 25%, not including colleges.  If you include colleges, the answer is closer to 50%.  And yet, either way the 5% statistic for school shootings holds true.

So, yes, private schools are safer from shootings.  And it's pretty obvious why if you've spent time in both types of institution.  Public schools are just more....public.  And privates are generally more closed, more walled off, gated off, more covered in cameras and high-quality security, more traffic-controlled, further from roads, on private roads, and so on.  While publics, whether elementary or college, tend to be physically open and central to the communities in which they are located.  It's not complicated.[/quote]

School shooters also generally come from broken homes. [b]Private school kids are more likely to come from stable, two parent homes.
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We should be encouraging a strong family unit as a way to prevent youth crime - both the urban gangbanger type and the suburban school shooter type.[/quote]

Well, lots of kids shoot up schools that aren't their schools.  All the big recent ones have been like that.

Anyway, the whole family values thing is a red herring. Other places have similar rates of divorce and single parenthood and they have way less gun violence.  The reason is that they have way less guns[/quote]

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