School Shootings This Year: How Many and Where
www.edweek.org
Education Week is tracking shootings in K-12 schools in 2020. See the number of incidents and where they occurred in our map and data table.

Numbers for 2019. I guess it was just a fad? It's a little disingenuous that they pump the numbers up with any altercation (even among adults) just because it's on school grounds, including parking lots and sports fields.

Here's a full timeline since Columbine. 2018 was a pretty heady year. As was 2014.

Obviously Covid-19 is a major factor in 2020, but how did we avoid any in 2019? And will the /pol incelsiors seek their revenge once Trump is out?

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    School shootings were a statistical blip in a country of 350 million people and 350 million guns, occurring predictably but contributing insignificantly to the nation's firearms mortality. Like abortion, school shootings were an issue that was useful to the political class in order to drive political engagement towards a safe topic . School shootings cannot actually be prevented or meaningfully influenced, and the focus on the most exceptional and rare mass shooting incidents ensures that there is no chance of school shooting fears resulting in actual political action that would harm any industry or interest group. However it is an extemely emotionally gripping topic that is easy to sensationalize, so it provides useful ammunition in the pageantry of american political warfare.