As of Sept 19th, we are at 50 school shootings!
As of Sept 19th, we are at 50 school shootings!
There have been at least 50 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of September 19. Thirteen were on college campuses, and 37 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left 24 people dead and at least 66 other victims injured, according to CNN’s analysis of events reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety.
https://www.cnn.com/us/school-shootings-fast-facts-dg/index.html
I believe the kids say "based".
But we don't know what it means. And that's okay.
I think those kids are drinking age now
I know the answer to all this. we just need more fetuses with guns.
They're going to scapegoat people with mental illness and start taking their rights away more and more. Then they'll start using that to target people they don't like. Take certain prescriptions? Now you're on the "dangerous person's list" now "dangerous people" can't hold certain jobs or public office. Been put on a "mental health" hold by the police ever? Same thing. Then the police can just use their "discretion" to put anyone they don't like on a mental health hold. LGBT? That means you're "mentally unhealthy" don't believe in God? Believe it or not "mental health problems" not Republican? Only a psycho believes in dirty socialism. Brown skin? (Insert racist stuff about inferior brain power) Now, of course we can't allow the "mentally unhealthy people" to procreate! So we'll have to sterilize them. Of course they can't be trusted, so we'll need to supervise them at all times! Work is good for mental health so we can give them "jobs" at the "mental health" camps!
Going to? The US has been doing that since the day it gained its independence.
I get what you're trying to say but you're quite far on a Fantasy path there. Yeah, the US has some fucked up rules and yeah, there are fucked up people wanting fucked up control over others, but you're talking Nazi Germany here
The police have access to warrantless tracking information on you through private companies in the form of license plate readers. Is a slow boil, but we'll get there soon enough.
I agree, Democrats are not going to do this in your country.
They are, however, going to continue arming fascist states and supporting with money and logistics their fascist wars.
And the fact that Republicans would be more eager to do that doesn't mean a lot. Republicans look like useless nonsense evil, a bit like Russia's regime, and Democrats look like effective intelligent evil - some kind of Empire in old Star Wars.
I really hope Democrats will not be like that after the election, the issue is - currently USA still has a Democratic administration. That administration didn't even pretend it's going to check Israel, Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Just my PoV as someone who does not live in the USA and is not going to move there in near perspective.
Yeah, this is a slippery slope. Imagine you have a neighbor you don't get along with. They could just report you for "mentally unstable behavior" and then you are added to a watch list! Then, of course, this list would be shared across government agencies, because "for safety". This would affect every decision you make for the rest of your life! It's almost like you would have a "red flag" attached to your name for the rest of your life!
All because someone just didn't like you.
Judging by your comment, we are in agreement that "red flag laws" are NOT a good idea!
I fucking wish we could share medical details between government agencies, but we can't even competently share driver's license info.
A bit like the green card lottery, school shootings are a lottery for "post natal abortions"©
Fun part: every parent gets to play.
I like how America's culture comes up to putting angry messages on cars.
We're forced to have cars because we've been denied effective public transportation, even in metropolitan areas.
Roads lead to road rage
Road rage leads to other kinds of rage
Only 50? IIRC that's a marked improvement from recent previous years.
Perhaps people conflate mass shootings with school shootings
Recent years have been wildly exaggerated. This is a frighteningly real number.
Many people in the comments trying to downplay the amount, america is truly fucked
they don't care about kids. they don't care about life. they care about controlling women. I first heard George Carlin say "pro-life is just anti-woman" when i was a kid, and didn't really understand very well. but now it's so clear.
Wait until they hear about the dozens of schools bombed in palestine as part of usa sponsored genocide.
Violence is deeply instilled and normalized in the history, culture and especially the state of our genocidal society.
Anybody else misread that exclamation point as excited at first? A little horrifying, NGL.
"If we push really hard, we can meet our Q4 quota and end the year strong!"
that honestly seems like on the low side
The front side is a little lower, but still high enough to kill children.
Maybe parents should raise their kids with dignity and respect and a dose of responsibility, maybe we can kill 2 birds with one stone.
Let me make two notes:
A "school shooting" is any time a gun goes off on any school grounds. You can go to the elementary soccer field and put one in the ground at midnight, "school shooting". Mass shootings are not what you picture in your mind when that word comes up.
The Gun Violence Archive and Everytown for Gun Safety are two of the most biased sources related to guns.
hahaha this guy's like "if you just shoot and injure 4 people but can't definitively kill them, is that even a shooting?"
good note on the school thing though. I'm totally going to a parent who lost their child playing soccer in school and telling them "well they weren't inside the classroom; you didn't expect them to be safe anywhere in school, didya?"
Using the GVA as a source, is like expecting trump not to lie.
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent
I don't see the gva anywhere in that article and the numbers in the CNN article are pretty close to the numbers NPR was able to verify
It's literally in the first paragraph:
There have been at least 50 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of September 19. Thirteen were on college campuses, and 37 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left 24 people dead and at least 66 other victims injured, according to CNN’s analysis of events reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety.
And if you read the article from NPR and look at the data from GVA, you will see a pattern of school shootings that aren't school shootings, but are counted as such because they happened near a school or some other reason.
An example is a pellet gun being used to shoot out the window on a school bus on the weekend...do you think that should be counted as a school shooting? I hope you don't.
They've already been trounced for pulling up a 6 year old article using 8 year old data.
Then they doggedly refused to do the math for recent years that there's literally a school shooting every week in the US.
And that doesn't even touch mass shootings in general.
The really sad part is they do eventually make a point that a lot of the problem is mental health and America's obsession with gun violence. But simply refusing to even admit to the actual frequency of the shootings or that the availability of guns is part of the issue means they'll continue to be ignored.
Thank you for fighting the good fight
That doesn't tell me anything. 50 ever? Per decade? Year? Month? Day? It's the US, all of those are possible and valid answers
This year alone, don’t play stupid
It's not meant to sound stupid, it was literally my first thought at reading the title. Any other country I would have taken it as "50 ever" but this being the US, is it 50 for the whole year? That sounds too low. 50 this month? What would be a bituch, I guess.
That was the point I was trying to make, that the US is at a point in history that such a statement needs more information, and that is bizarre to me.
What about the OP is ambiguous that they mean 50 since the start of this year?
They possibly just didn't read past the title lol
It can't be fifty ever. The US is too exceptional for that. Clearly we have a higher lifetime total.
I'm sure we could name 50 high-profile ones. Jonesboro, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Uvalde, Parkland...the list goes on.