{"id":46024,"date":"2020-02-19T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T17:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=46024"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T17:16:16","slug":"did-you-know-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/02\/did-you-know-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know??"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know it has been just over two years since the\nParkland School shooting incident? Last Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis ordered\nall flags of Government buildings including Florida schools to fly their flags\nat half-mast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Child-at-school.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Child-at-school.jpeg 860w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Child-at-school-300x147.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Child-at-school-768x375.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although there are many voices and opinions about why in the\npast quarter century we have seen an influx of school shootings including at\nParkland, the facts and numbers from the National Center for Education\nStatistics, 2013 report entitled, \u201cIndicators of School and Safety\u201d, the years\n1992 -93 until the 2010-11 school year, there were between 11 and thirty-four\nhomicides of youth ages 5 to 18 at U.S schools (including attacks other than\nwith firearms) with an average of approximately 23 homicides per year.\nComparing that to the National Center for Education enrolment statistics,\nthat\u2019s about 0.000044 percent of public and private Kindergarten through 12\nstudents who were killed at school per year between 1992-93 and 2010-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any number of children hurt or murdered at our schools is\nunacceptable, but there have been those who have used school shootings to\npropagate for a ban on guns and the Second Amendment as well. In fact,\nFlorida\u2019s \u201cRed-Flag Laws\u201d have been implemented directly as a result of the\nhysteria and propaganda of propagandists who hate both guns and the Second\nAmendment. The so-called \u201cRed Flag Laws are entirely unconstitutional.\nEnforcement of these laws take place by any number of Florida law enforcement\nofficials where they can confiscate a Florida resident\u2019s guns and weapons up to\none-year without any due process which is a guaranteed right under our United\nStates Constitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Groups such as Michael Bloomberg\u2019s (same Bloomberg running\nfor President) Everytown for Gun Safety, falsely claim that there have been\nseventy-four school shootings since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012. But those\nnumbers are artificially inflated by including suicides, accidents and criminal\nactivities such as drug deals or robberies that took place outside of school property\nor hours. Readers should also take notice that the Bloomberg sponsored numbers,\noccurred not only at grade schools but on college campuses as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Did you know it has been just over two years since the Parkland School shooting incident? 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