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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They're running with different definitions, is all. Given every school shooting is highly preventable, either number is valid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Unlike other data sources, this information includes gang shootings, domestic violence, shootings at sports games and afterhours school events, suicides, fights that escalate into shootings, and accidents.

Using this wide definition is clearly muddying the waters of what is colloquially known as a school shooting. Those words make people think of uvalde and Columbine, indiscriminately shooting many of the kids. Suicides, accidents, etc are MUCH different and implying they're the same is actively harming genuine discourse on the topic.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Exactly my thoughts. 80+ is already a horrific number, it's not going to make people more likely to act to artificially balloon the number 3x. There could be 1000 school shootings in one year and I doubt the US people or Govt would do a thing. They actively choose this every day.