It's already been 2 days since the last mass shooting, and the number of school shootings per year never exceed the number of days in a year, so it's safe to say we still have gaps, but especially in recent years, the numbers are... not looking good.
As in: just 15 days out of all of 2023 would have had no school shootings, if there was only 1 per day.
Damn, that's insane. I live in the UK, so my exposure to this stuff is mostly either a regular throughline of offhanded jokes about Americans and their guns, and occasionally the news becoming dominated by an especially bad shooting. We're quite separated from the constant reality of it, because so much of it does just fade into the background, to be highlighted only as statistics
All the students at my local high school staged a coordinated walk out without any adult intervention to march and protest the gun violence on campus. Hundreds of kids. It didn’t even make the news.
and the number of school shootings per year never exceed the number of days in a year
Well, it wouldn't be as noteable if the school shooting happened when kids are not at school. If we go by the oen that seems most common, there's 180 school days in the US (because no other countries need these kinds of staticstics),2025 is even on track for missing 1 a day, since it's on 159, and we're almost at the christmas break.
But it is close, and other years after 2021 have been 250+ which is more than 1 per school day, according to your source.
Not sure why the school shootings increased drastically after 2021. 🤷
Imagine one guy in Zoom going "POP POP POP POP POP" in front of his computer and the other kids switching off their cameras one by one as they are "hit".
Don't make it a game pls. Like I know we are desensitized because it happens often but making it grandiose only adds to the confusion. There should be 0 zoom shootings like there should be 0 school shootings in an academic year
I believe in reasonable background checks and waiting periods to purchase and install doors. Anyone with a improperly installed door should be held criminally liable.
Close, but that's only one part of the problem. You're forgetting that anybody can just open a door. The government should set an age limit, create an aptitude test and start issuing dooring licenses.
The obvious solution would be to ban guns, which I initially supported. But, if that bullet had been an inch closer to his left ear, things would have turned out a lot better for a lot of people.
Does it count as a school shooting if they only managed to hit targets in the single digits?
School shooters really ought to practice if they want to be taken seriously. This could have been a traffic accident.
(I don't know what this is about, I'm just practicing to be a Fox anchor, I heard the pay is good)
FYI: A "school shooting" is anytime a gun is discharged on school grounds. If I go shoot the soccer field on a Saturday afternoon, that counts.
And the San Francisco shooting? That was one kid purposefully going after another. It was a fight with a gun involved, not some random kid shooting the place up.
All these idiots freaking out over this fact about the United States don't realize it's also counting people bringing their guns to the schools on Saturday afternoons to shoot into soccer field.
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Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 223 pts · 245d
Just a small one, as a treat.
Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 245d
Fuck, I laughed too hard at this.
vrutkovs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 245d
Cold turkey would not work anyway
20cello@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 245d
It was just for the statistics ,nothing personal
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 245d
The streak is sacrosanct.
Devial@discuss.online · 71 pts · 245d
stoy@lemmy.zip · 68 pts · 245d
This makes me wonder, when was the last day that the US actually experienced 0 school shootings?
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 79 pts · 245d
It's already been 2 days since the last mass shooting, and the number of school shootings per year never exceed the number of days in a year, so it's safe to say we still have gaps, but especially in recent years, the numbers are... not looking good.
As in: just 15 days out of all of 2023 would have had no school shootings, if there was only 1 per day.
bromos@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 245d
Do kids go to school every day of the year? I thought they where free on weekends and hollidays.
OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net · 28 pts · 245d
I acknowledge your point but in fairness the question was when was the last day we experienced no school shootings
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 40 pts · 245d
So, technically last Sunday, probably.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 245d
It also means if we take out the weekends and holidays from the equation that there were more school shootings than school days in that year.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 245d
Then you need to consider unreported school shootings.
If somebody goes on a Sunday and starts shooting, will they know if the bullet holes are new or from the last shooting?
msage@programming.dev · 6 pts · 245d
My sides, that hurts in more ways than one.
bromos@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 245d
Kinda depressing to think it doesn't stop during the weekends. Fairnff that that was the question tho.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 245d
Damn, that's insane. I live in the UK, so my exposure to this stuff is mostly either a regular throughline of offhanded jokes about Americans and their guns, and occasionally the news becoming dominated by an especially bad shooting. We're quite separated from the constant reality of it, because so much of it does just fade into the background, to be highlighted only as statistics
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 244d
All the students at my local high school staged a coordinated walk out without any adult intervention to march and protest the gun violence on campus. Hundreds of kids. It didn’t even make the news.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 244d
Props to them. I'm always heartened to see how much more politically engaged the younger generation is compared to mine.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 245d
Well, it wouldn't be as noteable if the school shooting happened when kids are not at school. If we go by the oen that seems most common, there's 180 school days in the US (because no other countries need these kinds of staticstics),2025 is even on track for missing 1 a day, since it's on 159, and we're almost at the christmas break.
But it is close, and other years after 2021 have been 250+ which is more than 1 per school day, according to your source.
Not sure why the school shootings increased drastically after 2021. 🤷
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 34 pts · 245d
About 3000 school shootings since 1966, so very frequently
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/school-shootings-by-state
starchylemming@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 245d
what the actual fuck
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 245d
Last Sunday, 'cause no school?
Twig@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 245d
Sunday School?
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 245d
Also, from what I've read so far there wasn't one on the 1st, so it seems odd they'd specifically single out the 2nd
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 245d
Probably some time during the Clinton administration, if not even longer ago.
Bimfred@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 245d
What about the Covid period? Kinda hard to have a school shooting when kids aren't going to school, I'd imagine.
echodot@feddit.uk · 35 pts · 245d
The zoom shootings were just sort of embarrassing for everyone involved, so they stopped doing them.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 245d
Imagine one guy in Zoom going "POP POP POP POP POP" in front of his computer and the other kids switching off their cameras one by one as they are "hit".
Aneb@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 245d
Don't make it a game pls. Like I know we are desensitized because it happens often but making it grandiose only adds to the confusion. There should be 0 zoom shootings like there should be 0 school shootings in an academic year
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 245d
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 245d
LifeDeath finds a waySpicyLizards@reddthat.com · 63 pts · 245d
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 245d
News channels should have a ticker for school shootings like days accident free
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 24 pts · 245d
The 0 would cause burn-in in oled screens
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 245d
well it would scroll like the rest of the tickers
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 245d
Propaganda here boys......no way cops would enter a school under attack as shown in photo.
They just tape it off and hang out normally.
JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 245d
no no, you've got it all wrong. The school day is almost over and no shooting has occurred yet, so they are here to correct that.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 244d
Ah, they are present to shoot the black kids in self defense?
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 243d
Well Ted Crus said the reason is there are too many doors.
Seriously, he actually fucking said that.
apftwb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
I believe in reasonable background checks and waiting periods to purchase and install doors. Anyone with a improperly installed door should be held criminally liable.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d
Close, but that's only one part of the problem. You're forgetting that anybody can just open a door. The government should set an age limit, create an aptitude test and start issuing dooring licenses.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Clearly the teachers and students should all be armed with doors.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
The obvious solution would be to ban guns, which I initially supported. But, if that bullet had been an inch closer to his left ear, things would have turned out a lot better for a lot of people.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Does it count as a school shooting if they only managed to hit targets in the single digits?
School shooters really ought to practice if they want to be taken seriously. This could have been a traffic accident.
(I don't know what this is about, I'm just practicing to be a Fox anchor, I heard the pay is good)
shalafi@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 245d
FYI: A "school shooting" is anytime a gun is discharged on school grounds. If I go shoot the soccer field on a Saturday afternoon, that counts.
And the San Francisco shooting? That was one kid purposefully going after another. It was a fight with a gun involved, not some random kid shooting the place up.
topherclay@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 245d
All these idiots freaking out over this fact about the United States don't realize it's also counting people bringing their guns to the schools on Saturday afternoons to shoot into soccer field.
Only me and you are the smart ones.
Trail@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d
Yeah. Or just a regular one on one non-mass-shooting gunfight in the school premises.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d
We can have a little shooting, as a treat
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Be that as it may, we are still well within our rights to freak out. Even just ONE of the mass shootings should do that for any reasonable person.
topherclay@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
Yeah I was being sarcastic to highlight how stupid that guy's comment was.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 244d
Oh ok well that’s fine then.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Obviously that's not his point.
It's very, very bad. But IT IS NOT a mass-murder indiscriminate school shooting.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 244d
Is it me, or it sounds like you're trying to make excuse for this?
jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 243d
Why yes both those are things that we should be shocked are happening.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
They're both bad of course but it is a little disingenuous to equate it with an indiscriminate murderer trying to kill as many people as possible.