Better security may not make schools safer
(MCT) — DAYTON, Ohio — As students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., returned to school last week, debate continued over how to make the nation’s schools safer in the aftermath of second-deadliest mass murder in U.S. history.
But lost in the debate is that school shootings are extremely rare — fewer than 1 percent of all homicides occur at school or on the way to or from school, according to government statistics.
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