ACADEMIC STUDY: Schools Are Significantly Safer Today Than In 1990s
James Alan
James Alan Fox  the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology   Law and Public Policy at Northeastern  said that despite the mediaâs sensational coverage of school shootings  they are not common.
 Fox  added that more kids are killed per year from "pool drownings or bicycle accidents."
 Fox  said that while making policy changes on guns could possibly lower school shootings  it is highly unlikely that they will stop them from happening  as the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history was committed using handguns.
âThe thing to remember is that these are extremely rare events  and no matter what you can come up with to prevent it  the shooter will have a workaround â  Fox  said. âThere is not an epidemic of school shootings.â
 [TGT]  Fox  the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology   Law and Public Policy at Northeastern  said that despite the mediaâs sensational coverage of school shootings  they are not common.
 Fox  added that more kids are killed per year from "pool drownings or bicycle accidents."
 Fox  said that while making policy changes on guns could possibly lower school shootings  it is highly unlikely that they will stop them from happening  as the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history was committed using handguns.
âThe thing to remember is that these are extremely rare events  and no matter what you can come up with to prevent it  the shooter will have a workaround â  Fox  said. âThere is not an epidemic of school shootings.â