Posted on 05/26/2022 11:37:03 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort
For many people, the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting—which claimed the lives of at least 19 children and two adults—seemed all the more horrible after they learned it was the 27th school shooting so far this year. That fact makes it harder to view Uvalde as any kind of isolated incident.
An NPR article highlighting this statistic has been shared frequently on social media. The headline, "27 school shootings have taken place so far this year," probably gave many readers the impression that gun-related killings in schools have been especially high this year, even before Uvalde. Naturally, the prospect of 26 other previously unnoticed mass shooting events in schools should provoke alarm. It should also raise eyebrows. The problem here is that three very differently defined terms are being used somewhat incautiously and interchangeably: school shooting, mass shooting, and mass school shooting. Uvalde was a mass school shooting; the 26 previous tragedies at schools this year were not.
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How many before 1966 going back to.. ohh...1906?
Back when guns were..I am guessing.. more readily available than now a days.
Heard on a San Antonio radio station yesterday that there have been 200 mass shootings in US just this year.
Unbelievable the amount of bullshit that the msm puts out there.
How many of those “school shootings” were in chicago?
Remember, in 2015 the FBI re-defined what constitutes a “mass shooting” event to be an event that results in the death of 4 or more people.
How many were just in Chicago? You could have four or five on a typical weekend.
I believe one before 1966, near East Lansing , Mi. The city of Bath May 18, 1927.
That was explosives hidden under the school, not a shooting.
Killed 38 kids and 6 adults, though. Still the deadliest school attack in U.S. history, I believe.
What’s unbelievable is that liberals, to a retard, hear those lies and think it’s fact.
Wikopedia also lists a Winchester model54 in 30 06 as a weapon used. I know it was explosives, but, school, children, raving nutcase. Many similarities.
How many of those “school shootings” were in chicago?
Hmm...wonder why they made the cut off date 1966 and not earlier?
“mass shooting” - more than one victim.
I would say it is much higher than 200. Chicago may have 200 now.
Access is the other problem. Double entrance doors...visitors van be viewed and asked the nature of their business.
ALWAYS locked otherwise and/or guarded during morning entrance and afternoon let out hours.
Wrong link?
When I was in high school in the 60s, many of the student had a rifle in the back window of their pickup truck. and they parked in the school parking lot. (this was in California)
We dont talk about those....shhhhh
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