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In 2019, eight people were killed and 43 were injured in 25 school shooting incidents. 2018 was much worse with 37 kids killed in school shootings. This is ro
by zaroth 6y ago
In 2019, eight people were killed and 43 were injured in 25 school shooting incidents.
2018 was much worse with 37 kids killed in school shootings.
This is roughly the same as the number of unarmed black people shot and killed by police in the line of duty (at least this number has been trending downward for several years).
- zepto 6y agoDo you have a source for the this? Reporting of school shootings is notoriously unreliable: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-sch...
- zaroth 6y agoI agree, there's no standard definition. I grabbed the 8 / 43 number for 2019 here [1]. I see they have similar numebers as what I found for 2018 as well [2]. The 2018 numbers I was referencing was from this 10 year overview [3]. [1] - https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shootings-of-2019-behind-the-numbers.html https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shooting... [2] - https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shootings-2018-how-many-where.html https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-shooting... [3] - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/07/us/ten-years-of-school-shootings-trnd/ https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/07/us/ten-years-of-scho...