darkSpyro

school shootings have gone from being an out of the ordinary insane to think of experience like columbine to being an all too familiar scenario to be hearing about on the news. i made a topic about it in early 2018 which got some attention and started some conversation this site is dead s i don t expect the same but since then how has the "greatet country in the world" faired

school shootings that resulted in death of or in excess of 10 victims

2018

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School - February 14 - there were 17 victims

Santa Fe High School - May 18 - there were 10 victims


in 2018 there were 268 mass shootings

in 2019 there were 417 mass shootings

in 2020 there were 611 mass shootings

in 2021 there were 255 mass shootings by October


to note not all of these shootings resulted in death an example of numbers of deaths and injury are as follows (real numbers ( 2021 482 people dead and 1,927 injured))


an example of shootings in the school system


school related shootings between 2018 and 2019


death - injury

March 13, 2018 Seaside, California
0 1
March 20, 2018 Great Mills, Maryland
2 1
April 12, 2018 Raytown, Missouri
0 1
April 20, 2018 Ocala, Florida
0 1
May 11, 2018 Palmdale, California
0 1
May 16, 2018 Dixon, Illinois
0 1
May 18, 2018 Santa Fe, Texas
10 13
May 18, 2018 Jonesboro, Georgia
1 3
May 25, 2018 Noblesville, Indiana
0 2
August 4, 2018 Edgewood, Maryland
1 0
August 17, 2018 Wellington, Florida
0 2
August 20, 2018 Atlanta, Georgia
0 0
August 30, 2018 San Francisco, California
0 1
September 5, 2018 Providence, Rhode Island
1 1
September 10, 2018 Memphis, Tennessee
0 1
September 11, 2018 North Las Vegas, Nevada
1 0
October 29, 2018 Matthews, North Carolina
1 1
December 13, 2018 Richmond, Indiana
1 0
January 2, 2019 Jersey City, New Jersey
0 0
January 3, 2019 Miami, Florida
0 0
January 4, 2019 Columbus, Mississippi
0 1
January 7, 2019 Belmont, California
1 0
January 11, 2019 Eugene, Oregon
1 0
January 19, 2019 Overland Park, Kansas
0 2
January 25, 2019 Mobile, Alabama
0 2
January 30, 2019 Lithonia, Georgia
0 1
January 30, 2019 Prairie View, Texas
0 0
January 31, 2019 Memphis, Tennessee
0 1
January 31, 2019 Humble, Texas
0 1
February 8, 2019 Baltimore, Maryland
0 1
February 12, 2019 Kansas City, Missouri
1 0
February 14, 2019 Rio Rancho, New Mexico
0 0
February 17, 2019 Arapahoe County, Colorado
1 0
February 26, 2019 Montgomery, Alabama
0 1
February 28, 2019 Cheyenne, Wyoming
0 0
March 7, 2019 Grambling, Louisiana
0 1
March 22, 2019 Blounstville, Alabama
0 1
March 27, 2019 Holmes County, Mississippi
0 1
April 1, 2019 Prescott, Arkansas
0 1
April 25, 2019 Texas City, Texas
0 3
April 25, 2019 Stone Mountain, Georgia
0 10
April 30, 2019 Charlotte, North Carolina
2 4
May 4, 2019 Eugene, Oregon
1 0
May 6, 2019 Riverview, Florida
0 0
May 7, 2019 Highlands Ranch, Colorado
1 8
May 7, 2019 Savannah, Georgia
0 1
May 8, 2019 Chicago, Illinois
0 1
May 17, 2019 Jacksonville, Florida
0 1
June 21, 2019 Flint, Michigan
0 1
July 2, 2019 Anchorage, Alaska
0 1
July 19, 2019 San Diego, California
0 0
August 8, 2019 Montgomery, Alabama
0 0
August 27, 2019 Los Angeles, California
0 1
August 30, 2019 Toledo, Ohio
0 1
August 31, 2019 Mobile, Alabama
0 10
September 6, 2019 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1 0
September 13, 2019 Newport News, Virginia
0 3
September 14, 2019 Fort Worth, Texas
0 2
September 20, 2019 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
0 2
September 27, 2019 Richmond, California
0 3
October 13, 2019 Nashville, Tennessee
1 0
October 22, 2019 Santa Rosa, California
0 1
November 5, 2019 Hazleton, Pennsylvania
0 1
November 11, 2019 Baltimore, Maryland
0 1
November 13, 2019 Los Angeles, California
1 0
November 14, 2019 Santa Clarita, California
3 3
November 15, 2019 Pleasantville, New Jersey
1 2
November 23, 2019 Union City, California
2 0
December 2, 2019 Waukesha, Wisconsin
0 1
December 3, 2019 Oshkosh, Wisconsin
0 2
December 4, 2019 Jackson, Mississippi
0 1
December 16, 2019 New Haven, Connecticut
0 1
December 19, 2019 Naples, Florida
1 0

so did things get any better since my last topic then

NO

yo america like can you get someone on this please it could use a little real attention not just blasting and sobbing on the news but you know actual something to be done about it please and also thank you

and those are just some of the numbers there s more on the school side obviously but yeah formatting was difficult

yeah real scary stuff

i live in a pretty tame area, and even we got really close to having a school shooting. put us all in lockdown on campus for a while. luckily, nothing bad happened, but it was too close for comfort

that s insane i never experienced a mass shooting type situation guns and stuff yes but directly not like a crazy person coming for anyone breathing there s not much you can do in the way of reasoning which is kind of terrifying

shootings get a lot of attention from the media. in fact they get way too much attention from the media to the point of exageration. i think that shootings happen so infrequently that its kinda silly to do any statistics on them. like a lot of graphs like

this one shows that there have been less shootings now than there were in the 90s. however look at how they skew their data is. it goes by 4 more people killed. how many people need to be killed for a shooting to count? some say only one needs to be injured others say 1 needs to die.

some of the shootings posted in the list are stuff like this where its semantics to decide if is a shooting or not. makes me wonder how many shooting reports are just people lampshading to prove their cause.

so why do we care so much about the numbers? i think its because school shootings are more personal or emotional compared to something that kills people more like falling or malpractices in hospitals. like people die from car crashes all the time yet its not like we pray that today's drive won't end horrifically. yet think about the news and what the internet says. how often do you hear about school shootings on those platforms? it feels like this conversation pops up a lot during the year. its because a horrific event at a place where children are supposed to be safe sounds awful. people who have experienced a fraction of their lives being killed for no reason are awful and hits us all on an emotional level. and people are more likely to care about a subject that connects with them emotionally thus the media pumps out articles and titles featuring every school shootings whenever they happen. i personally think that shootings happen so infrequently that when they do happen it sounds major.

shootings in American media are an easy way for the news to hit emotional and behavioral ques for the viewing audience to react to. i think its a pretty manufactured crisis that people worry about them when you are more likely to be killed by being a bystander in a high speed police chase.

shootings are still bad.

thanks for the graph i m going to look at it and form a thought

okay so according to that graph which is an interesting look the real standout then is in what s considered mass shootings being pretty frequent in the last decade if i m not mistaken post-columbine there have been way more school massacres then prior as idk how many there were beforehand earlier in the 90s the graph doesn t indicate any at all

now that graph definitely shows that in the early 90s shootings in schools was way more frequent of an occurrence then what we can see of this decade. now i would like to see a graph that includes the last five or so years because as i understand it basically 2018 to now there has been much more gun violence at schools although including margery stoneman and santa fe which were both 10+ fatalities and in one year to my knowledge though we havn t had another since on as great of a scale unless something is slipping my mind.

now i do know that gun violence is not at the height it once was and news media does tend to blow up the picture on that big time for the whole anti gun thing my father grew up in 1970s-80s in new york where gun violence (and violence in general) was as common as it ever was in the city and he frequently tells me like the old man he is how much worse things were back in his day so i never had a delusion about that a lot of people have this end of the world syndrome thing going on like the state we are in is so unheard of when things were pretty much generally way worse in the 80s and 90s and specifically with gun violence

i do agree i see news outlets manipulation on school shootings and that s horrible on so many levels beyond that i still think just because the school shooting thing is less prominent than they let on it doesn t necessarily mean it isn t a problem that has to be dealt with and with the advent of social media and the internet being engrained in kids lives these days and this demented admiration for school shooters themselves it s setting a dangerous precedent for where things could go in the future in the next decade we could see a graph much different than that if something isn t done about it

i don t think taking everyones guns is a solution

i don t think things like age limits help at all these kids were already too young to have these things lol

but keeping guns out of hands of people with obvious red flags and stupid parents leaving their guns next to the dog foood in check might help

im really upset with america for always doing nothing why can almost every other country figure this problem out except for them