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The School Shootings That Weren't
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Dennis in MA
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First the ACLU. Now NPR. Maybe being a freedom lover is becoming vogue. We might have to start sculpting our beards and wearing funky glasses and jodhpurs and such. I think I'm OK with that if we get what we want. I can't grow a beard anyhow. LOL
HorizontalHunter
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They are just playing a numbers game. The important wording is “school-related” shootings. Not school shootings. It is a great way to puff the numbers as there are way more school-related shootings than school shootings.
When I was in the school business we had to report crime that occurred in a 10 mile radius of the school to the feds for school crime stats. I’m guessing that’s where these numbers come from but I have been out of that for a long time.
Bob
When I was in the school business we had to report crime that occurred in a 10 mile radius of the school to the feds for school crime stats. I’m guessing that’s where these numbers come from but I have been out of that for a long time.
Bob
hpm
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If a drug deal goes wrong at 2am in the morning near a school property and someone fires a gun it's counted in those US Education Department statistics.
The reality:
Since 1996 there have been 16 multiple victim shootings in schools...of these 8 were mass shootings.
Schools are safer than they were in the 90s, and school shootings are not more common than they used to be, researchers say
The reality:
Since 1996 there have been 16 multiple victim shootings in schools...of these 8 were mass shootings.
Schools are safer than they were in the 90s, and school shootings are not more common than they used to be, researchers say
It’s actually not even that. They were reporting stuff that not only didn’t even involve any shooting in the first place, but often didn’t even involve a firearm. They were straight up bogus or erroneous reports.
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