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You probably would if you'd been in the immediate vicinity. Being shot at (even inadvertently) has a way of changing your persective.

• Dylan16807 2y ago
  Getting scared enough to change your perspective sounds like a reason to specifically not expect the people involved to be objective or correctly categorize the event.
  • anigbrowl 2y ago
    IF there are people involved in a situation where there's a risk of death, that's an objective fact. There is no 'correct classification' issue here. The article collects all shootings that happen on school properties, you can derive subcategories from that. On the other hand, if your selection criteria is, say, 'shootings where someone tries to kill as many students/teachers as possible' you'll omit a lot of very real shooting incidents. It's better to have more data than less.
    • Dylan16807 2y ago
      That has almost nothing to do with what I said. But to address your new points, I think very broad collection is fine as long as people don't treat the raw entry count as a particularly useful number.