{"id":348829,"date":"2018-02-18T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T16:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-dont-schools-have-better-security\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T16:42:32","slug":"why-dont-schools-have-better-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-dont-schools-have-better-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t Schools Have Better Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Whenever there is a mass shooting in the media, commentators rush to figure out on what to blame the latest violence. Predictably, those who want gun control blame gun control. Others blame mental illness \u2014 and perhaps a lack of government programs related to it. Some others blame racism or ideology, as was the case with the Aurora theater shooting when one ABC talking head concluded the shooter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/stop-it-partisan-speculation-about-colorado-shooter-hes-a-tea-partier-no-hes-a-democrat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">must a \u201cTea Party\u201d member\u00a0<\/a>within hours of the shooting. And then there\u2019s the Republican politician who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/gop-rep-links-shooting-to-attacks-on-judeo-christian-beliefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blamed the same shooting\u00a0<\/a>on\u00a0\u201cthe ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The odds of dying in a mass shooting remain amazingly small, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health-news\/why-are-we-afraid-of-mass-shootings#1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Healthline<\/em>\u00a0notes<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe lifetime risk of dying in a mass shooting is around 1 in 110,154 \u2014 about the same chance of dying from a dog attack or legal execution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the need to create a theory showing exactly what causes these shootings remains strong in many observers. Often, these theories are followed up with some demand for a change in public policy, whether it be gun control, more health care spending, or changes in education and social policy.<\/p>\n<p>What all of the strategies have in common, however, is that they\u00a0depend on very indirect solutions related to social engineering while ignoring the most proximate cause of the tragedies in question.<\/p>\n<p>Those who think they can abolish school shootings with gun control, for example, must also then ensure that weapons cannot be attained by illegal means, and that potential murderers will not accomplish the same ends by using other improvised weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, those who think that addressing mental illness must also assume that all potential perpetrators will receive treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Even more fanciful is the idea that the FBI and other&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/ryan-mcmaken\/shootings-why-dont-schools-have-better-security\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever there is a mass shooting in the media, commentators rush to figure out on what to blame the latest violence. Predictably, those who want gun control blame gun control. Others blame mental illness \u2014 and perhaps a lack of government programs related to it. Some others blame racism or ideology, as was the case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}