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[quote=Anonymous][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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Much bigger database than the study you cite.

"The case studies reinforce the theory that shootings often result when there is opportunity (i.e., situational crime prevention theory), as identified as easy access to school, gun, or both. The researchers demonstrated that:
Consistent with situational crime prevention theory, shootings in multi-story schools with a police officer present were more likely to be non-fatal."

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/creation-school-shooting-open-source-database-fuels-understanding?fbclid=IwAR1JII6WW0eJMpmL_PjuKzSpL7k9q7i7-Q0iPryF8yBnwpFhezUS1sQPPtI [/quote]

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