Posted on 06/11/2022 9:55:09 AM PDT by DoodleBob
The Naval Postgraduate School‘s Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), in conjunction with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), maintains a K-12 school shooting database project as part of their Advanced Thinking in Homeland Security program. They found the need for accurate, detailed information on this subject was paramount to campus safety.
The database documents every instance a gun is brandished, fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims, time, day of the week, or reason. You can find the entire database here but we will highlight some of the important findings below.
As we continue through the pandemic and most schools have returned to in-person learning, it is important to note that experts have voiced significant concerns over the number of incidents of gun-related violence so far in 2022. Mental health concerns among young people have skyrocketed and many weapons have been confiscated from schools.
The school shooting data below includes stats from 1970 to 2021. Partial 2022 data can be found on the CHDS website.
The CHDS has compiled all of their K-12 school shooting statistics in graphs, tables and charts.
Here are some statistics specific to the shooters:
To gather detailed and accurate data, the CHDS had to come up with a definition of a school shooting to decide which incidents made it into the database. Their definition is any time “a gun is brandished, is fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims (including zero), time, day of the week, or reason.”
Some criteria questions to consider when determining if an incident is actually a school shooting are:
The CHDS says choosing to include or exclude factors like these can directly affect the statistical narrative on school shootings. Through exclusion, fewer incidents will be reported. Partial or incomplete inclusion will increase the number of reported incidents.
After defining what a school shooting was, the CHDS followed a four-step process to populate the school shooting database.
An open-source analysis was conducted to determine all of the available data on school shootings. After reviewing the existing data, the information from each of the different databases was compiled into a single spreadsheet.
Newspaper archives were frequently used to find accurate information on school shootings, although some would only give the school name, shooter’s name, or victim’s name. Cross-referencing the information from multiple newspaper articles provided the most open-source information and best corroboration reasonably available.
To assist in identifying data and sorting information, a set of categories were established to provide context for the cause of the shooting. The top categories can be found in the chart below. The full interactive chart can be found here.
(Graphic Credit: CHDS)
The information in the database is open-source from online and print news. The validity of the information about each incident was quantified with a reliability score of one to five (five being the most reliable).
The goal is to have every incident in the database have a reliability score of five. Each of the school shootings in the database includes a date, school name, city, and state.
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Over half killed in the last 2 years. All this hormone replacing and mental health and covid and making people sit at home. Adds up quick..
Sorry those were incidents not killings. I need to learn to read.
Question is, are kids in more danger at school than they would be at other places where they might commonly congregate? Probably not.
There is certainly a lot of facts, details, statistics and data within this article. All very conclusive; except…
There is no information outlining why these school shootings happen. I searched for a key word that would explain why these shootings happen and that word is missing in this article.
Interestingly enough, that word is missing in our society. That word is father. Do more research and see that the majority of these killers have no father at home. And add to that sorry statistic the fact that our country has crashed and burned in terms of morality and decency, and it’s a wonder that school shootings don’t occur more often.
Think about ways to change schools to make them safer.
Stop thinking about ways to take guns away from law-abiding citizens.
Focus on the real problem.
Is whether the incident occurred in a GFZ included? It’s significant, both statistically and in terms of informing policy.
Good information...
They left out one important thing...
How many shooters were either under the influence of or going through withdrawal from psychotropic drugs,
?
I haven’t looked at the data, but it would be interesting to see how the stats compare for the following dates:
1. Before and after the creation of the Department of Education.
2. Before and after the creation of gun-free zones.
Also, how many attacks were thwarted by armed defenders?
For perspective, we kill an average of 250 children a year transporting them to and from school.
70% involved handguns.
They also left out WHY, although that probably wouldn’t be easy information to come by. But if we don’t know the reasoning that brings someone to such an action, it’s pretty hard to figure out an intervention.
These morons left out over 200 years of armed schoolteachers trained from their youth with guns from 1620`s to 1840`s and beyond. They are complete ignoramuses. Armed schoolmarms records can be found in all the small town historical societies and local newspapers of village of the 1800`s.
viz.
Apparently, school security experts have completely forgotten the original first school security systems in America. It was fearless schoolmarms, big dogs, a musket and a deadeye aim. People appear to be quite ignorant of American Education Security and its beginnings. Please tell educators go back and study early American school security. They might actually learn something. Apparently, USA educators do not even know their history of American education. Viz.
200 years ago, near Saratoga, NY, 2 schoolmarms armed with muskets held off a band of Algonquin Indians, British allies, until the militia arrived. You can check the Saratoga, NY area archives. It`s a famous battle. Apparently US teachers have total amnesia concerning how to protect children from predators 2 legged or 4 legged. Schools had armed teachers already here over 200 years ago- nothing new.
SCHOOLS ARE GUN ZONES in 1800
“Children of the present day would be somewhat startled to go to school attended by large dogs, to keep off the bears and other wild animals, to study all day by the crackle of the great fire and back logs, to hear the howling of wolves at rollcall, and see the teacher take from its resting place over the door, a trusty rifle to guard the way home. Such were the first schools in 1800.”
‘Periwinkle’, “The Sentinel”, Feb 21, 1874 [”Ticonderoga Sentinel”, Ticonderoga, NY].**USA
Probably yes when you are talking about public schools.
They are specifically free fire zones because they have disarmed all the adults in there, usually by law.
Which is why some parents choose private schools where one of the selling points (aside from your kid actually being taught real stuff rather then some made up crap) is that the majority of the teachers carry.
well... isnt that justa bout what South Chicago reports annually?? Asking for a friend...
This definition includes all suicides, gang fights, and even self defense shootings outside schools, stray bullets, no one injured, etc.
The definition:
The database documents every instance a gun is brandished, fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims, time, day of the week, or reason.
Considering this covers over 50 years, even in these extremely broad terms, we are talking less than 40 incidents per year, in a nation of 330 million. This definition includes all incidents where the school is not even in session.
The purpose appears to be to de-legitimize firearms.
The pie chart is confusing. There are 17 “slices”, but only eight different categories are listed. Moreover, some of the different slices have virtually the same color.
Lots of vulnerable people jammed into a soft facility. What could go wrong.
Meanwhile homeschool kids live in daily danger of dropping their grilled cheese sandwich on the floor.
“Interestingly enough, that word is missing in our society. That word is father.”
You can thank the pill and feminism for that. Women used to be the gate keeper of sexual morality and pregnancy, but now unwed motherhood is celebrated in this country like the accomplishment of a hero.
Women acting like men. I know it’s a double standard, but it is what it is.
The press secretary said that making schools safer from armed intruders is not a priority for president Biden.
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