Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting
Folks, the number of shooting crimes (including school shootings) in the United States is going down. I know times like this are the worst times to mention this fact, but it&#x27;s true [0].<p>The media frenzy makes this look like some kind of out-of-control epidemic, but that&#x27;s just not the case.<p>This does not mean we should do nothing about them...any shooting is an event that should not happen. But it&#x27;s important to realize this fact because too many people are approaching the topic emotionally rather than rationally and proposing extreme reactions to trends that simply aren&#x27;t as extreme as they perceive them to be.<p>If you disagree, ask yourself why there are so many cases of shootings in the news all of a sudden. While some recent shootings have indeed been tail-event massacres (i.e., unusually major), many have been events that would otherwise not have attracted much attention (that psycho teacher who shot himself in a closet a few weeks ago comes to mind...why the heck was that on national news?).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mises.org&#x2F;wire&#x2F;there-are-fewer-school-shootings-now-during-1990s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mises.org&#x2F;wire&#x2F;there-are-fewer-school-shootings-now-...</a>