I came across this article today and apparently there were more mass school shootings than I knew about but the bottom line is that according to the Washington Post there have been 185 school kids and teachers killed in mass school children since 1999. Amazingly that works out to an average of 8.04/yr. So my bottom line remains the same. Every one of these shootings is heartbreaking, but knee jerk reactions calling for spending billions to prevent 8 deaths per year that still won’t prevent them.