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Experts shoot holes in CNN's report on school gun violence

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June 19, 2018, 02:28 PM
Sigmanic
Experts shoot holes in CNN's report on school gun violence
A stat from the article that gives a better perspective: "David Ropeik, a consultant in risk communication and author of “How Risky Is It, Really?” ran the numbers. As he explained in a Washington Post editorial, taking into account the number of students attending school, “the statistical likelihood of any given public school student being murdered by gun, in school, on any given day since 1999, was roughly 1 in 1 billion.”



http://www.foxnews.com/enterta...ol-gun-violence.html