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"there were a total of seven shootings that took place on school campuses in March 2020. Four of those shootings were classified as unintentional discharges, on
by prophesi 7y ago
"there were a total of seven shootings that took place on school campuses in March 2020. Four of those shootings were classified as unintentional discharges, one took place between adults on a high school football field over the weekend and two occurred on college campuses but involved no students."
I find it odd that these don't count, and that they happened in the first place.
- knowaveragejoe 7y agoWhen you include these kinds of incidents in the tallies of "shootings", the picture looks even worse for the US as a whole.
- zepto 7y agoThese kinds of events are in fact normally counted. A veteran committing suicide in the parking lot of a long disused school counts as a ‘school shooting’. It’s dishonest.
- ccffpphh 7y agoMost "school shootings" which are counted in statistics are actually events like this - incidents of violence which simply happen to occur near an educational institution such as universities.
- 1123581321 7y agoSchool shootings refer to mass killings or attempted killings directed at fellow students and staff, usually indiscriminately. Adding “normal” homicides, suicides, gang violence and accidents that could happen anywhere, and that happen due to ancient, well understood motivations, would be too noisy and create the need for a new statistic and term that exclude them.
- xbmcuser 7y agoAnywhere is a misnomer in this case as no other country has such a gun culture so anywhere in the US is probably more appropriate.
- 1123581321 7y agoYes, we are discussing an article about US statistics but I shouldn’t have assumed that in my more general comment.