
OP/ED BYTE: June 22, 2014: The debate about firearms and mental health can't make K-12 schools or college campuses safer if it's based on false premises — including the notion of a mass-shooting epidemic. Writing for The American Spectator, Josh Blackman, a South Texas College of Law assistant professor, notes that mass shootings — involving four or more murders — were just 0.02 percent of total homicide incidents from 2002 to 2011, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. In fact, the mass-shooting rate — about two of every 10,000 homicide incidents — has been steady for nearly four decades. Criminologist James Alan Fox says mass shootings account for only about 1 percent of campus murders. And the probability of homicide or suicide killing a K-12 student in school was less than one in 1 million from 1992 to 1994, a little more than one in 2 million from 1994 to 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But people's tendencies obscure such stats. [Pittsburgh Tribune Review: There's no epidemic of mass shootings]
June 22, 2014: Josh Blackman: American Spectator: My American Spectator Essay on the Supreme Court’s Abandonment of the Second Amendment Is Now Out of the Paywall
OUR GUN-SHY JUSTICES: The Supreme Court abandons the Second Amendment is now available to read free of charge. In particular, here are eight of the leading cases where the Court denied certiorari.
OUR GUN-SHY JUSTICES: The Supreme Court abandons the Second Amendment is now available to read free of charge. In particular, here are eight of the leading cases where the Court denied certiorari.