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I would wager that if you told most people there was a school shooting and if they asked you how many children died and you said, "none, the school was empty at the time," they'd say you were being a dick by making them upset because they thought someone had killed a bunch of kids.
Well yes, but thats how they count school shootings, or at least in the US. You have to realize that most people counting school shootings are incentivized to inflate the numbers as much as possible. The number of students actually shot in school shootings is a magnitude lower than the number of school shootings.
Imo, number of students shot in school shootings is a much better metric than just school shootings by itself.
Can you show me where it says that is how a school shooting is counted in the U.S.?
There's no uniform definition, but groups with an agenda will count any discharge of a firearm on property owned by a school as a school shooting regardless of circumstances.
One notorious case was a person who committed suicide in the parking lot of a closed down school. It happened in the middle of the night and classes hadn't been held in that building for years. Advocacy groups still counted it.
NPR did a whole investigation into over reporting in 2018. Here's a link:
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent
You said, and I quote:
This certainly implies that there is a uniform definition.
If you meant that certain specific groups with certain biases define a school shooting as any shooting that happens involving a school, including ones when the building is empty, you should have said it.
Also, from your article:
So it sounds like "they," when you said, "Well yes, but thats how they count school shootings, or at least in the US." are the different many school districts in the country and they don't all count them the same way.
Basically, your claim seems to be some groups or other, which you have not named, define school shootings in a stupid way.
Very informative.
Fuck me for trying to answer your question, I guess.
My question was regarding your initial statement. You did answer it. Your answer is that by "The school doesnt have to be open or have any students on campus to be consideeed a school shooting," what you meant was, "according to certain unnamed groups with an agenda I have not stated, it counts as a school shooting when the building is empty."
So, again, thanks. Very informative about the unnamed groups with the unstated agenda.
You ever think of switching to decaf?
Congratulations on being the first user I block on Lemmy.
He wasnt the same user, I am.
Okay, then can you show me where?
Can you tell me how many school shootings there have been in the US while schools were closed?
Im guessing the number is very low if not 0.
Not casualties is not the same as shooting at an empty building
Its not zero, I can tell you that much. And the definition used by federal government includes closed schools, also buses and any other school property regardless of status. Someone brandishes a gun at the school bus depot, thats a school shooting.
"a gun is brandished, is fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims (including zero), time, day of the week, or reason."
https://www.chds.us/sssc/methods/
I have not been able to find an answer to the question you won't answer
Its only the gun grabbers spending resources to track school shootings. Nobody is telling you how many have zero causalities because no one is spending the resources to find out.