Posted on 01/24/2018 9:46:46 AM PST by Ennis85
ATLANTA — On Tuesday, it was a high school in small-town Kentucky. On Monday, a school cafeteria outside Dallas and a charter school parking lot in New Orleans. And before that, a school bus in Iowa , a college campus in Southern California, a high school in Seattle.
Gunfire ringing out in American schools used to be rare, and shocking. Now it seems to happen all the time.
The scene in Benton, Ky., on Tuesday was the worst so far in 2018: Two 15-year-old students were killed and 18 more people were injured. But it was one of at least 11 shootings on school property recorded since Jan. 1, and roughly the 50th of the academic year. Researchers and gun control advocates say that since 2013, they have logged school shootings at a rate of about one a week.
“We have absolutely become numb to these kinds of shootings, and I think that will continue,” said Katherine W. Schweit, a former senior F.B.I. official and the co-author of a study of 160 active shooting incidents in the United States.
Some of the shootings at schools this year were suicides that injured no one else; some did not result in any injuries at all. But in the years since the massacres at Columbine High School in Colorado, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., gun safety advocates say, all school shootings seem to have lost some of their capacity to shock.
Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, a gun safety group, said that’s because in 2012 in Newtown, “20 first graders and six educators were slaughtered in an elementary school.”
“The news cycles are so short right now in America, and there’s a lot going on,” she said. “But you would think
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Social media reports the shooter, Gabe Parker, was autistic.
Wonder what kind of gun it was and where he got it?
It may not have been a mass murder or a mass killing; but if 11 people were shot, it was a mass shooting.
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I hate to use the sarcasm tag, but I've had three different people take seriously my obviously sarcastic comments in just the last two days.
I guess it’s only “many” if it’s your child.
That doesn’t make it national news, though.
I’m just making the case regarding relevance to everyone reading or hearing the story. I live in KY. This story is more important to me than someone living in California, and more important to them than someone living in Japan. And it is most important to the kids and parents associated with the school where it happened.
But statistically it is like a bad car wreck. They happen every day, by the dozens.
There may be another reason.
The shooters are young white males for the most part. Has anyone ever considered that these shooters are reacting violently to the anti-white male hate rhetoric that is being directed against them?
I was just using the technical definition. It’s a mass shooting if at least 4 people (including the shooter) die.
It makes no sense, but it’s how it’s defined.
And I was wrong to call it out because the article, in fact, did not call it a mass shooting.
Like Chicago, all of these school shootings are happening where guns are prohibited.
Yep. You brought up one of my pet peeves.
“School bus in Iowa” was a pellet gun.
Both of the other “school shootings” linked in the first paragraph came from outside. In the case at San Bernardino, the shot might have come from the foothills far from campus.
Neither seems to have anything to do with the schools.
you say Neither were the other school shootings listed
What other school shootings were listed??
This is the only reference made to the other 10 I could find...
Some of the shootings at schools this year were suicides that injured no one else; some did not result in any injuries at all.
It may have been the 11th school/gun incident nationally, but from what I can find, pretty sure it was not the 11th school shooting.
So NYT how many have been shot in Chicago?
Thanks and sorry, I commented from memory today after reading last night when I finished work at 3 am. My second comment to the OP was my first thought last night... I should have posted then and left it at that, except I think I found the link from checking in at the DUmp, not here... That’s usually my final nightly laugh to make me sleep good.
I do remember reading that after you posted it, but did not remember any details of any shootings this year, seemed like the article went into much more detail about old prior shootings. The quote I posted was what I took away from that article, because it was obvious they were inflating numbers... I will say, I Should have re-read it when I went to pull that quote out.
“Gunfire ringing out in American schools used to be rare, and shocking. Now it seems to happen all the time. “
Here rebuked by Daniel Lee in op-ed in today’s WSJ:
A ‘School Shooting’ With a Pellet Gun
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12007907239604714277804584003461514031736.html?mod=ITP_opinion_0
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