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re: School safety: A few things to increase it
Posted on 2/15/18 at 12:22 pm to MrFelixx
Posted on 2/15/18 at 12:22 pm to MrFelixx
quote:Huh?
285 school shootings in US last year (includes anything from a gun being fired w/no injuries to a gun being fired with fatalities)
580K shootings in the US last year
So, if those statistics are correct, there are fewer school shootings than people tend to think. Media coverage hypes school shootings far more than gang killings, domestic cases, etc.
The numbers you just gave show there's 5-6 school shootings a week. I didn't realize that and that's absurdly high, nowhere near fewer than most would tend to think.
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Posted on 2/15/18 at 12:29 pm to shel311
5-6/week based on a full 52 week year. How many weeks is school normally in session?
This post was edited on 2/15/18 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 2/15/18 at 1:19 pm to shel311
quote:
The numbers you just gave show there's 5-6 school shootings a week. I didn't realize that and that's absurdly high, nowhere near fewer than most would tend to think.
By school shootings they mean anything that happens in a school gun related. Not mass murder type of things. So if a kid takes a gun to school to commit suicide, to show his friends and it fires accidentally, etc. That 250 a year is how often a gun is fired in a school.
Posted on 3/7/18 at 9:23 am to shel311
Sorry. I totally blew that. The data set was for 4 years - 2013-2017. I said it was for last year. Brain fart.
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