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March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002

Really interesting stat. Do you have a link? I’m curious how school shooting was defined. Most databases classify a suicide or accidental discharge on school property a school shooting.
 
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Yeah so everybody is thinking Columbine or Sandyhook, when in reality it's mostly poor behavior by 15 year olds. First ones on the list were stabbings, how come the headline isn't simply "school violence"?
this is exactly right.

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For purposes of this monitoring report, school-associated violent deaths are homicides, suicides, or other violent, non-accidental deaths in the United States in which a fatal injury occurs:

1) inside a school, on school property, on or immediately around (and associated with) a school bus, or in the immediate area (and associated with) a K-12 elementary or secondary public, private, or parochial school;

2)on the way to or from a school for a school session;

3)while attending, or on the way to or from, a school-sponsored event;

4) as a clear result of school-related incidents/conflicts, functions, activities, regardless of whether on or off actual school property;
 
Really interesting stat. Do you have a link? I’m curious how school shooting was defined. Most databases classify a suicide or accidental discharge on school property a school shooting.

Well, what else do you call it when a gun is fired at school? Notice the term was "school shooting", not a "mass casualty school shooting". Either way, neither are good so why try to downplay one of them?
 
Well, what else do you call it when a gun is fired at school? Notice the term was "school shooting", not a "mass casualty school shooting". Either way, neither are good so why try to downplay one of them?

There’s a difference when there’s no intent to hurt or injure someone else, IMO.
 
also surrounding neighborhoods are included and the south side of Chicago has a severe gang problem.
 
There’s a difference when there’s no intent to hurt or injure someone else, IMO.

Both are bad. Sure, the actual scenarios leading up to the events are often different (they are often very similar as well), but they are both bad.
 
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