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School shootings refer to mass killings or attempted killings directed at fellow students and staff, usually indiscriminately. Adding “normal” homicides, suici
by 1123581321 7y ago
School 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.