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Welcome to YouthFacts<\/strong>
\n We Are Debunkers<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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YouthFacts is dedicated to providing factual information on youth issues \u2013- crime, violence, sex, drugs, drinking, social behaviors, education, civic engagement, attitudes, media, whatever teen terror du jour arises. Since we emphasize demonstrable fact over teen-bashing emotionalism and interest-driven propaganda, the information you find here will be dramatically different than in the major media and political forums.<\/p>\n

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Sources: CDC (2022), World Population Review (2022).<\/p><\/div>\n

Example: The truth about school shootings no one talks about<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are the unvarnished facts about United States school shootings leaders, interest groups, and\u00a0major media on all sides refuse to engage, because they demolish everyone\u2019s arguments:<\/p>\n

1. Even in the worst year for school shootings \u2013 even with the Uvalde, Sandy Hook,\u00a0Parkland, etc. school massacres \u2013 a student in an American primary or secondary (K-12)\u00a0school is safer from being shot than a person in Germany.<\/p>\n

2. One 64-year-old shot more people in Las Vegas in 15 minutes than are shot in all 131,000\u00a0American schools in four years.<\/p>\n

3. A student would have to attend school every school day for 400 years to risk having any\u00a0kind of shooting (homicide, accident, fatal, non-fatal) anywhere in their school, and for\u00a0over 200,000 years before risking being fatally shot in or on the grounds of a school.<\/p>\n

4. We should be far more frightened when a student leaves school, especially if they are\u00a0going home, where they are many times more likely to be shot.<\/p>\n

5. Why are schools so uniquely safe from gun violence? Because (a) they are heavily\u00a0occupied by young populations singularly unlikely to shoot themselves or others, and (b)\u00a0nearly all are gun-free.<\/p>\n

6. Why do interest groups on all sides demonize schools as bullet-riddled places students\u00a0should be terrified to enter? Because all sides choose exploit fears of youth to advance\u00a0their agendas even at the expense of making schools more dangerous. The rampant\u00a0hysteria gun-control lobbies create about schools fuels the crazed impetus by gun-rights\u00a0groups to arm school personnel and officers -a reckless policy that has already caused\u00a0more school shootings.<\/p>\n

The YouthFacts study<\/a> uses standard Centers for Disease Control, FBI, Education Department, and demographic data to compare the worst recent year for school shootings\u00a0with gun violence risks elsewhere in American society and other nations, adjusted for the\u00a0time youths and adults actually spend in those places. Its conclusions are straightforward and\u00a0factual \u2013 and therefore startling and challenging to America\u2019s grossly deceptive gun debate.<\/p>\n

As teen crime plunges, \u201cjuvenile justice\u201d interests resurrect crude 19th- <\/a><\/strong>century racism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The juvenile system\u2019s crisis can be summed up in FBI tabulations of arrests<\/a> of persons under age 18 for criminal offenses:<\/p>\n