No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

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No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby Glenn_S on Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:14 pm

A fact-filled article from the Washington Post...

Everytown has long inflated its total by including incidents of gunfire that are not really school shootings.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/breaking ... li=BBnb7Kz

I was pleasatly surprised at this article...
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Re: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby Bearcatrp on Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:26 pm

About time someone comes out with the truth.
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Re: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby Rip Van Winkle on Fri Feb 16, 2018 6:47 am

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Re: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby Ghost on Fri Feb 16, 2018 8:34 am

On Feb. 5, a police officer was sitting on a bench in a Minnesota school gym when a third-grader accidentally pulled the trigger of his holstered pistol, firing a round into the floor. None of the four students in the gym were injured, but, again, the incident was probably scary.

That counted, lol

On average, two dozen children are shot every day in the United States, and in 2016 more youths were killed by gunfire — 1,637 — than during any previous year this millennium.

I'd like to see a breakdown of these statistics. Suicide? Gang? Domestic? Accident?
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Re: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby ex-LT on Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:49 am

Ghost wrote:
On average, two dozen children are shot every day in the United States, and in 2016 more youths were killed by gunfire — 1,637 — than during any previous year this millennium.

I'd like to see a breakdown of these statistics. Suicide? Gang? Domestic? Accident?

Let's not forget, they also classify anyone under age 21 as a child.
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Re: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby Ghost on Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:53 am

ex-LT wrote:
Ghost wrote:
On average, two dozen children are shot every day in the United States, and in 2016 more youths were killed by gunfire — 1,637 — than during any previous year this millennium.

I'd like to see a breakdown of these statistics. Suicide? Gang? Domestic? Accident?

Let's not forget, they also classify anyone under age 21 as a child.

True age breakdown would be beneficial
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Re: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby gbono23 on Fri Feb 16, 2018 12:25 pm

[I'd like to see a breakdown of these statistics. Suicide? Gang? Domestic? Accident?[/quote]
Let's not forget, they also classify anyone under age 21 as a child.[/quote]
True age breakdown would be beneficial[/quote]

Not only an age breakdown, I'd like to see what circumstances were involved. I'm sure that number includes gang bangers in the hood! When you start adding in what happens in Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philly, Baltimore and DC, its easy to get to those numbers! Although I've heard Baltimore is getting safer now, its been over 11 days since they had a murder.
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Re: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby Holland&Holland on Fri Feb 16, 2018 12:30 pm

Did the DEA agent that shot him self with a Glock Fortay in front of a classroom because he was the only one qualified to do so count?
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Re: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby Ghost on Fri Feb 16, 2018 1:08 pm

Holland&Holland wrote:Did the DEA agent that shot him self with a Glock Fortay in front of a classroom because he was the only one qualified to do so count?

The Florida policemen that shot himself this week responding to one of the potential copycat calls in the same school district probably gets us up to 20 now. ;)
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Re: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby gbono23 on Fri Feb 16, 2018 8:12 pm

They did include the police officer who was sitting in the bleachers in a MN school, where a kid pulled the trigger and the gun fired into the floor!
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Re: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby Lumpy on Sat Feb 17, 2018 10:21 pm

They now count people who back in the day were old enough to fight and die in a war as "children".
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Re: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Postby ex-LT on Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:49 am

gbono23 wrote:They did include the police officer who was sitting in the bleachers in a MN school, where a kid pulled the trigger and the gun fired into the floor!

Yes, they did.

From the article linked in the original post...

Others that Everytown includes on its list, though, are trickier to categorize.

About 6 p.m. Jan. 10, a bullet probably fired from off campus hit the window of a building at a college in Southern California. No one was hurt, but students could still have been frightened. Classes were canceled, rooms were locked down and police searched campus for the gunman, who was never found.

On Feb. 5, a police officer was sitting on a bench in a Minnesota school gym when a third-grader accidentally pulled the trigger of his holstered pistol, firing a round into the floor. None of the four students in the gym were injured, but, again, the incident was probably scary.
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