Nope, wrong
https://cdugan0.tripod.com/JonesboroEtc.html
“Not all paddling states are in the Deep South. Paddling is still permitted in Pennsylvania schools. But this did not prevent a 14-year-old-boy from fatally shooting a teacher and wounding two students at an eight-grade dance in the town of Edinboro, April 24, 1998.
Arkansas has the second highest school paddling rate in the country - high even by U.S. Southern standards. Yet this did not prevent two boys from going on a shooting rampage at their Middle School in Jonesboro on March 24, 1998. Not only was paddling practiced at this school, but the older of the two boys, 13 year old Mitchell Johnson, was reportedly paddled at school the day before the tragedy. He shot and killed the teacher who had paddled him, but targeted no other faculty members.
A Reuters wire story on the day of the shooting stated, "It was not immediately clear what the boys' motives were, although local reports said they may have been recently disciplined by school teachers" (Reuters, 1998). The Boston Globe reported, "On Monday, classmates and their parents said, Johnson brought a pocket knife to school, and rumors spread through the hallways that he had been paddled for the violation, a practice allowed in Arkansas schools" (O'Brien, 1998). One of my own informants told me, "I spoke with the reporter in Jonesboro and he told me he definitely would not write about the paddling in the local newspaper, The Jonesboro Sun. When I asked him why, he said he's sick of people blaming Southern culture for the shooting."
The teacher said to have paddled Mitchell Johnson for bringing a knife to school was the only teacher shot and killed by Johnson the following day. This paddling may or may not have had any influence on Mitchell Johnson's murderous behavior. We will probably never know. But it clearly did not prevent the tragedy from happening. If paddling in the schools is the solution to school shootings, why did it fail to prevent this one?”
Then they weren't paddled as hard as I was. I've owned guns since I was 12 (actually earlier for the .22, 12 for the hi-power rifle) and I never shot anyone. But then, I wasn't "indoctrinated" like kids are today. Stupid millennials...
The Whipping Woman sure is funny! 