There have been at least 50 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of September 19. Thirteen were on college campuses, and 37 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left 24 people dead and at least 66 other victims injured, according to CNN’s analysis of events reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety.
https://www.cnn.com/us/school-shootings-fast-facts-dg/index.html
Using the GVA as a source, is like expecting trump not to lie.
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent
I don’t see the gva anywhere in that article and the numbers in the CNN article are pretty close to the numbers NPR was able to verify
They’ve already been trounced for pulling up a 6 year old article using 8 year old data.
Then they doggedly refused to do the math for recent years that there’s literally a school shooting every week in the US.
And that doesn’t even touch mass shootings in general.
The really sad part is they do eventually make a point that a lot of the problem is mental health and America’s obsession with gun violence. But simply refusing to even admit to the actual frequency of the shootings or that the availability of guns is part of the issue means they’ll continue to be ignored.
It’s literally in the first paragraph:
There have been at least 50 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of September 19. Thirteen were on college campuses, and 37 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left 24 people dead and at least 66 other victims injured, according to CNN’s analysis of events reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety.
And if you read the article from NPR and look at the data from GVA, you will see a pattern of school shootings that aren’t school shootings, but are counted as such because they happened near a school or some other reason.
An example is a pellet gun being used to shoot out the window on a school bus on the weekend…do you think that should be counted as a school shooting? I hope you don’t.
What source should be used?
And was there more than one school shooting this year? Because that’s one more than almost every other Western country.
I’m not sure why you’re trying to downplay this problem.
Edit: Don’t bother reading below for a source. They don’t give one. They’re just here to troll.
Frankly, it doesn’t matter what is and what is not counted as a school shooting. If one shooting happens, and one child is murdered-
It’s one too fucking many.
Let me make two notes:
A “school shooting” is any time a gun goes off on any school grounds. You can go to the elementary soccer field and put one in the ground at midnight, “school shooting”. Mass shootings are not what you picture in your mind when that word comes up.
The Gun Violence Archive and Everytown for Gun Safety are two of the most biased sources related to guns.
hahaha this guy’s like “if you just shoot and injure 4 people but can’t definitively kill them, is that even a shooting?”
good note on the school thing though. I’m totally going to a parent who lost their child playing soccer in school and telling them “well they weren’t inside the classroom; you didn’t expect them to be safe anywhere in school, didya?”
That doesn’t tell me anything. 50 ever? Per decade? Year? Month? Day? It’s the US, all of those are possible and valid answers
What about the OP is ambiguous that they mean 50 since the start of this year?
It can’t be fifty ever. The US is too exceptional for that. Clearly we have a higher lifetime total.
It’s not meant to sound stupid, it was literally my first thought at reading the title. Any other country I would have taken it as “50 ever” but this being the US, is it 50 for the whole year? That sounds too low. 50 this month? What would be a bituch, I guess.
That was the point I was trying to make, that the US is at a point in history that such a statement needs more information, and that is bizarre to me.
I understand yours point, sorry for being harsh. Look here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/gun-violence-claimed-lives-5000-people-2024/story?id=107262776
that honestly seems like on the low side
Anybody else misread that exclamation point as excited at first? A little horrifying, NGL.
