Posted on 05/28/2022 4:48:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
"Uvalde was a mass school shooting; the 26 previous tragedies at schools this year were not."
While it has become widely accepted that the recent Uvalde school shooting was the 27th this year, it's not widely known that the definition has changed recently, lowering the threshold for what is defined as a "school shooting."
"Interesting. The definition of 'school shooting' was changed to make them seem common, when in fact it’s rarer than we realized," tweeted filmmaker Mike Cernovich on Thursday:
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
Marxist trick. Change terminology to “improve” your argument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
Many of today’s problems were avoided in the past by nipping them in the bud both with environmental challenges (someone doesn’t work then someone didn’t eat. Dead end for those genes) and at the hand of those closest to the situation.
BNot everyone was equal, very Enlightened. Here comes post modernism.
Bad devoids who look human but are not will kill when they set out to most of the time. They have the element of surprise.
Locking and hardening the schools is good but there are 500,000 school busses that transport over 25 million kids a day. These are the very soft targets.
Using this metric, there have only been a total 13 mass school shootings since 1966, going back to the infamous clock tower incident at the University of Austin on Aug 1 of that year.
In 1927 in Michigan, there was a school bombing attack that killed 44.
A couple years ago, the official FBI definition of a mass shooting was three dead, excluding the shooter (if also killed).
Also, the victims had to be strangers to the shooter.
Gang related killings and intra-family mass killings were explicitly excluded from the definition.
Earlier today, I reviewed a list of US school shootings since 2000. By my count, of the 400+ incidents, seven involved ten or more deaths. Fifteen involved four or more deaths. 352 involved zero or one death. Most appeared to be based on personal grudges or spontaneous responses to arguments over one thing or another. There are more than 130,900 K-12 schools in the country, and about 5,300 colleges and universities.
Beat me to it. See post #9.
Don’t forget, several of the school shooting stats also include non-school related stuff like: a gang shooting in a school parking lot in the middle of the night, school cops having an ND, or a guy that lives right next to the school shooting a burglar.
Yep. And here's more:
Using the term "sexual orientation" instead of "sexual preference" is woke.
Using “gender” instead of “sex” is woke.
Using “Black” instead of “black” is woke”.
Using “Gender affirming surgery” instead of “genital mutilation surgery” is woke.
Using "Undocumented immigrant" instead of "Illegal immigrant" or "Illegal alien" is woke.
Using the term "equity" (equal outcome) instead of "equality" (equal opportunity) is woke.
Affirmative Action = quotas = discrimination = woke.
This is not new. A few years ago this issue came up. One case of a guy who shot himself in a school parking lot after hours when the school was closed was listed as a school shooting. No surprise, the leftwing lies as easily as they breathe.
“Locking and hardening the schools is good but there are 500,000 school busses that transport over 25 million kids a day. These are the very soft targets.”
School buses are not soft targets for mass shooters. Shooting from the outside is difficult. Forced entry is not easy. Drivers are taught to turn off their engines and throw the keys out of the window. If a shooter begins with shooting the driver, who will control the bus? In an attempted forced entry the driver will try to close the door and may pull away. If the bus is moving and the driver becomes disabled, the hijacker is in a terrible predicament. (However, students are taught every year how to stop a moving bus if the driver were to pass out. You just pull the emergency brake, which is accessible from the aisle.)
Terrorist might target school buses, but that’s a different issue.
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Those items do not do much to target a busload of kids in a school bus. But your list does serve to prove a point. Trying to stop all mass murder attacks by restricting access to weapons is a losing strategy.
The soft target for school bus riders is when dozens of children unload at a single stop (such as their school). It would be a good idea to make changes that restrict access to these areas or have armed officers on duty during loading and unloading.
But no matter what, it’s very difficult to completely prevent a determined murderer who has a death wish from random attacks.
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