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Have we become too paranoid about mass shootings?

  • Written by Jaclyn Schildkraut, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, State University of New York Oswego
Have we become too paranoid about mass shootings?A big discrepancy exists between the actual threat of mass shootings and the way the public perceives that threat.Tatiana Akhmetgalieva/Shutterstock.com

Many Americans worry about when – not if – another mass shooting will occur, and a Gallup poll from September found that nearly half of Americans fear being a victim of one of these...

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