Love Waxing Cold – Lawlessness – Violence – Homicide – School Shootings

Jesus indicated that one (of many) signs of the end times or the end of the age grace would be that love for one another would grow cold. Matthew 24:12, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” This can also be interpreted that lawlessness will abound. This includes violence, murder, terrorism, shootings, abortion, sexual attacks, knife attacks, car/van attacks, chemical attacks and other similar acts of destructive and evil behavior. Yes, these things have occurred in time past. But consider the frequency, intensity and devastation of these types of attacks and mass school shootings. They are like birth pangs in frequency and intensity. This is just one part of the CONVERGENCE or CONVERGING of signs.

10 years. 180 school shootings. 356 victims. Love Waxing Cold in US Schools. Increasing like the pains of a woman in labor. Must read for US Citizens.

Since 2009, at least 177 of America’s schools experienced a shooting. These tragedies are as diverse as our nation, but the depth of trauma is hard to convey. There is no standard definition for what qualifies as a school shooting in the US. Nor is there a universally accepted database. So CNN built our own. We examined 10 years of shootings on K-12 campuses and found two sobering truths: School shootings are increasing, and no type of community is spared.

 10 years of school shootings: Detailed article here with individual school statistics and locations starting in 2009.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/07/us/ten-years-of-school-shootings-trnd/

Over the past decade, there were at least 180 shootings at K-12 schools across the US. They happened in big cities and in small towns, at homecoming games and during art classes, as students are leaving campus in the afternoon and during late-night arguments in school parking lots.

And they are happening more often.

CNN analyzed locations, time of day, type of school and student demographics to better understand how this trauma grips the country. While school shootings disproportionately affect urban schools and people of color, mass shootings are more likely to occur at white, suburban schools.

Given what has happened so far this year, the frequency shows no sign of relenting.

School shootings are increasing

With little federal data on school shootings, it’s hard to pinpoint what’s behind the recent increase. But law enforcement experts believe one reason could be diminished coping skills, which can prompt people to lash out in violent ways.

“Today we have kids who are so isolated inside — playing video games and glued to their (tablets) and everything else — that they don’t learn those problem-solving skills,” says Mike Clumpner, a sworn police officer who specializes in active shooter training.

“We continually see poor coping skills and poor conflict resolution skills,” agrees former FBI agent Chris Cole, director of threat intervention services at the University of Wisconsin. “And as more of them (shootings) occur, it becomes sort of acceptable as ‘that’s a way I can settle my grievances.’”

Regardless of what’s behind this violence, it touches every aspect of school life.

More school shootings happen on Fridays and during the afternoon

From school drop-off on Monday morning to a Saturday night basketball game, shootings can happen any time. But more often, they happen on Fridays.

Experts suggest this could be due to tensions that build up over the course of a school week.

“If something has transpired to bring you to the breaking point of committing some type of homicidal action … you may not have had any type of decompression time during the school week,” says Clumpner. “And so that’s kind of five days stacked on top of each other.”

These shootings have tragic effects that ripple beyond the victims and their families. Nearly 200,000 students attended schools where one of these shootings occurred.

Race plays a factor in when school shootings are likely to occur

At predominately black schools, students are more likely to experience a shooting after 4 p.m., typically during an after-school event.

And while black students make up about 15% of the more than 50 million students in the US, they account for about a third of the students who experienced a school shooting since 2009.

Meanwhile, shootings at predominately white schools often happen in the morning, as classes begin, or around dismissal time.

And those shootings tend to claim more victims.

Shootings at mostly white schools have more casualties

CNN’s review found that shootings at predominately white schools have an average of three casualties. That’s twice the average of the number of shooting victims at predominantly black and Hispanic schools.

Mostly white schools also have more mass shootings, like the ones at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and Sandy Hook Elementary, typically carried out by young white males while school is in session.

The average shooting has 2 victims

Experts say that while mass shootings are a concern, it’s the day-to-day violence that impacts our schools more.

“Those mass shootings, the headline-grabbing ones, are really, really a small fraction of them,” says Cole. “It’s more of the everyday violence, that unfortunately I think we’ve become a bit immune to, that produce the large numbers.”

And this violence reaches across America, touching every kind of community.

Across America, schools saw 356 shooting victims

From the countryside to big cities, 114 people were killed and 242 were injured in shootings at K-12 schools from 2009 through 2018.

To prevent school shootings, experts agree we need comprehensive and reliable data. Without that research, we’re going blind into a “deadly future,” cautions Mark Rosenberg, who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 20 years and led its gun violence research.

“You need those interventions that reduce gun violence and save lives, but that also protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners,” says Rosenberg. “But we don’t know what works … and we’re not looking. That’s the disgrace.”

Editor’s Note: CNN spent more than a year analyzing the rising toll of America’s school shootings. CNN will update its database throughout the school year, with 2019 numbers to come.