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51 Years of Data: K-12 School Shooting Statistics Everyone Should Know Since 1970, there have been 1,924 incidents involving the discharge of a firearm on school property and 637 people have died.
Campus Safety Magazine ^ | January 28, 2022 | CS Staff

Posted on 06/11/2022 9:55:09 AM PDT by DoodleBob

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1 posted on 06/11/2022 9:55:09 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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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..


2 posted on 06/11/2022 9:59:14 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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Sorry those were incidents not killings. I need to learn to read.


3 posted on 06/11/2022 10:00:11 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: DoodleBob

Question is, are kids in more danger at school than they would be at other places where they might commonly congregate? Probably not.


4 posted on 06/11/2022 10:01:26 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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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.


5 posted on 06/11/2022 10:03:40 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: DoodleBob

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.


6 posted on 06/11/2022 10:05:10 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I don't want to be part of a union of 50 states. We tried that. It doesn't work.)
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To: DoodleBob

Is whether the incident occurred in a GFZ included? It’s significant, both statistically and in terms of informing policy.


7 posted on 06/11/2022 10:05:47 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: DoodleBob

Good information...
They left out one important thing...
How many shooters were either under the influence of or going through withdrawal from psychotropic drugs,
?


8 posted on 06/11/2022 10:07:23 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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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?


9 posted on 06/11/2022 10:09:25 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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For perspective, we kill an average of 250 children a year transporting them to and from school.


10 posted on 06/11/2022 10:11:58 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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70% involved handguns.


11 posted on 06/11/2022 10:24:53 AM PDT by consult
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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.


12 posted on 06/11/2022 10:29:25 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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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


13 posted on 06/11/2022 10:30:13 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect..it was NYC.)
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To: smokingfrog
Question is, are kids in more danger at school than they would be at other places where they might commonly congregate? Probably not.

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.

14 posted on 06/11/2022 10:30:20 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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well... isnt that justa bout what South Chicago reports annually?? Asking for a friend...


15 posted on 06/11/2022 10:37:52 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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This is a really frivolous definition of school shootings, which only gained public attention as rampage shootings involving multiple unrelated victims.

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.

16 posted on 06/11/2022 10:38:29 AM PDT by marktwain
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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.


17 posted on 06/11/2022 10:42:30 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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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.


18 posted on 06/11/2022 10:49:03 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“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.


19 posted on 06/11/2022 10:59:53 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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The press secretary said that making schools safer from armed intruders is not a priority for president Biden.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/05/31/karine_jean-pierre_hardening_schools_is_not_something_presient_biden_believes_in.amp.html


20 posted on 06/11/2022 11:03:20 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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