Surprise! Public Schools Have More Shootings than Private Schools

The libertarian CATO Institute asks: Are Shootings More Likely to Occur in Public Schools? and concludes that only 6% of shootings occur in private schools.  Their point, one would assume, is that things are always better in the private than public sector.

But what if anything does this finding actually mean?  First of all, only 9% of all American school students are enrolled in private schools.

More importantly, private schools have better faculty:student ratios, less dense campuses making them poorer targets for mass killings, more participation in sports, less tolerance of bullying, and more attention to students’ individual needs.  The home lives of private school children include fewer guns, more highly employed, more intelligent, better educated and progressive parents, and more parental influence in the children’s lives.

Every single factor militates towards fewer shootings in private schools.