In the toll of gun violence on children, Newtown remains an anomaly

[cali]

It took less than an hour to kill 20 young children in Connecticut.

That’s five times as many as have been killed by guns in the District in 12 years.

Nationwide, it has taken four months for the gun deaths of children under the age of 10 to equal the number killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Criminologists say the shootings at the school have stunned the country because they force everyone to confront the rarest and most shocking of deaths: young children killed en masse by a stranger wielding a gun at their school.

“This is an act that is literally unprecedented in the U.S. — the mass slaughter of so many children by one person,” said Richard Rosenfeld, a professor of criminology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. “This is a very, very unusual phenomenon.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-toll-of-gun-violence-on-children-newtown-remains-an-anomaly/2012/12/23/e00ee74c-4892-11e2-820e-17eefac2f939_story.html

[Nikia]

1. I suspected that the murder of small children was rare

And was probably most common in domestic situations. Thanks for the article.

[cali]

2. Yeah, the statistics in that article are pretty conclusive.