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March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002

• masonic 7y ago
  "Data from the National School Safety Center and National School Safety and Security Services confirm that there have been school shootings every March since 2002." Yet, drilling down into both stated sources show data only from 1992-2010 and no details after 2010.
  • bleah1000 6y ago
    To add to that, these stats can tend to be skewed a bit. For example, is it a school shooting if someone shoots a gun while at a school that closed for the day? Is it a school shooting if it's at a school that is completely closed down? Also, is there a school shooting in every other month of the school year since we started recording? Maybe March is some weird outlier. Unfortunately, it really feels like today's news seem to prioritize clicks over real information, so it's hard to trust what they say. Multiple sources are good when they don't reference each other as a source. But sometimes they just spout stats without actually vetting the stats themselves. It's hard to have a good feel for whether any story is written by a freelancer spitting out a quick article for cheap, or someone who really did some research about the subject.
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