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The original article conflated mass killings by children with mass killings of children by adults and other events like Andrea Yates.

Cho Seung-Hui, Harris, and Clebold were all 17 or older. They were not children even by current standards.

Mass killings by children are extremely rare. I think population growth alone partly explains why more occur now than in the past.

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wjmphoto wrote:
HankB wrote: The difference is that guns have been around for centuries and school shootings seem to have started around the time shrinks started doping kids in large numbers ....
Really?

A brief bit of historical research proves this to be 100% incorrect! . . ..
And then as "proof", fewer than a dozen incidents in the past four centuries are cited, and it turns out most of those didn't even involve students as the shooter . . . and in some instances, there was no "shooter" at all!

Considering I had stated in earlier posts that the WND articles did not constitute scientific proof, I feel pretty good when people who take issue with my suppositions have to make that kind of a "stretch" in an attempt to refute them! :grin:
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