The odds are far worse

On Saturday I reported some of the findings by Robert Spitzer about gun control.  One conclusion he had reached was that the chance of a child dying from a violent attack at school was about one in a million.  I don't dispute his finding, but one has to realize he is basing it on the entire country.  And in Chicago the chances of being killed in school are far higher.  In 2010, nearly 700 Chicago school children were shot and 66 of them died. The odds that year were clearly a lot higher.  If the entire population of Chicago were made up only of school children, the rate would be close to twenty-five in a million. Last year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel attended a memorial for 260 school children who had been killed in just the previous three years.