Everytown has long inflated its total by including incidents of gunfire that are not really school shootings.
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I was pleasatly surprised at this article...
Everytown has long inflated its total by including incidents of gunfire that are not really school shootings.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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!
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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