Out of all the people to inflict heartless violence on, they choose kids.
the young and poor always pay a heavier price
the most effective way to inflict terror is to go after the babies. from bombing daycares, to mass shootings where children and teenagers congregate, this has always been the methodology.
The American way
Of course they do. They won’t pick people who might fight back, they might get hurt.
If they wanted to pick people who wouldn’t fight back, there are a lot of democrats in Congress
They’re reporting the shooter was a student and is the son of local policewoman. He had used one of her guns for the shooting.
I hate that this is just another Tuesday in the news cycle now. My partner works at a University, and stuff like this terrifies me.
I’m not gonna lie: I’m genuinely desensitized to it at this point. My reaction is mostly along the lines of “huh, glad it’s not near me”. I know that’s not good.
one day after the 18 year anniversary of the Virginia Tech Massacre
At this point, most school shootings occur on the anniversary of some other school shooting …
A horrifying fact:
In 2024, 2023, and 2022, there were 132, 139, and 123 gun violence incidents in schools [1]. Totaling 384, by the pigeonhole principle [2], it’s a guarantee that some (not necessarily mass-) shooting takes place on the anniversary of at least one other shooting.
Edit: Updated statistics to be more selective about the incident type.
It’s bad enough but we don’t need to spread false narratives.
I cited where I found those statistics. Their methodology included events such as brandishing firearms, bullets hitting schools, and premeditated school shootings. It’s not mass school shootings with fatalities occurring nearly every day of the year, but my point still stands: there have been enough of them in general that the pigeonhole principle applies.
Except you stated 349 school shootings. When that’s wildly incorrect. Gang members shooting at each other near a school is not a school shooting. Brandishing a firearm near a school is not a school shooting. Bullets hitting a school building from gang violence is not a school shooting.
Even NPR did a section on how inaccurate these statistics are.
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent
The data can be filtered. I can’t figure out how to get a breakdown of it by incident type and year, but filtering to incident types that aren’t plausibly unrelated (murder-suicide, escalation of dispute, anger over discipline, and targeted domestic dispute), the data from my source shows 1185 incidents and 1366 casualties recorded since 1966. The total number of incidents of all types is 2981.
Assuming the ratios for incident types don’t fluctuate, only 40% would fall into the categories I filtered for. With the combined total for just 2023/2024 being 679, that’s still 269 incidents over two years. I’ll correct my previous comment.
As for the NPR article you linked, the source I’m using is aware of it and mentions it in their methodology page. They try to account for the lack of granularity by using multiple sources and cross-referencing them.
One of these days, the headline will be “Active Shooter Reported at Board Meeting.”
never. active shooters are terrorists, but they’re not reported on as terrorists when they attack us. but one man shoots one billionaire, and he’s a terrorist immediately. how the media reports events reveals things about who controls the media and what it exists for
Meh, one can dream, but it’s mostly the little kids that need to cower in fear. Board rooms can afford armed guards
There’s more security getting into most skyscrapers and corporate HQs than there are schools.
What does that tell you about who the powers that be care about keeping safe? We get security theater, they get actual security. Our babies die en masse, they wear their babies as hats
Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter, Jaime, was killed in the Parkland high school shooting in South Florida in 2018, said some of Jaime’s classmates now attend FSU. “Incredibly, some of them were just a part of their 2nd school shooting and some were in the student union today”
jfc
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