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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mass shootings are less than 1% of violence and there are evidence based ways to reduce those. That doesn’t include an SRO although there is significant data showing SRO presence reduces the number of killed.

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Mass shootings (planned, indiscriminate attacks) may be less than 1% of "violence" but I would like to know what percent of in-school murders they represent, for one. I don't think it's nearly as low. For two, I have found no significant data showing SRO presence reduces the number killed in a mass shooting, and not for lack of trying. Please share yours. What I have found is data showing the exact opposite. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2776515 The kind of shooter who comes to school intending to kill indiscriminately is not deterred by an SRO/armed guard, because they know full well they're unlikely to get out alive and are often suicidal anyway. I know this is a comparatively rare scenario, and I take comfort in that, but I find the fact that they ever happen completely intolerable and want very much to take action that is [i]actually helpful[/i], and if SROs actually increase the danger to students in these scenarios just by existing in the school with a weapon that the shooter can fantasize about dying in a shootout with, then no thank you.

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