11 School Shootings in 24 Days

[rohnalak]

January has seen an alarming number of high school shootings in 2018. Just weeks into the new year, the number of school shootings has hit double digits.

January 23 at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky.
January 3: Michigan, East Olive Elementary School
January 3: Washington, New Start High School
January 5: Iowa, School Bus
January 9: Arizona, Coronado Elementary School
January 10: California, California State University
January 10: Texas, Grayson College Criminal Justice Center
January 15: Texas, Wiley College
January 20: North Carolina, Wake Forest University
January 22: Louisiana, NET Charter High School
January 22: Texas, Italy High School

 

[Broken_Erika]

The solution is obvious, all Teachers, Students and School staff should carry automatic weapons at all times.
This message is approved by the NRA and Republican Party.

 

[warpus]

Without context this doesn't really mean anything. Is this more than usual, on a per month basis?

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Have there been any at all in any other country on Earth in January 2018? Genuinely don't know the answer and Google isn't being helpful.

 

[Ryika]

What a broad definition for "school shooting", when it covers a veteran who committed suicide via gun in a parking lot on school property, and a criminal justice student who accidentally fired a weapon (at Grayson College, injuring nobody) that he had mistaken for a training weapon.

3 of those incidents are actual "school shootings" (4 if you count the case where a non-student shot at students from a truck), as in "person goes into school to shoot people", and out of those three, only one is a "rampage" where the shooter killed indiscriminately (two, if you count the non-student, but he didn't kill anybody), the other two were targeted shootings of one specific individual.

The rest are either reported shots fired on school property, or nothing at all.

Overall, if I count correctly that's 5 dead (not counting the 2 suicides/self-killings).

 

[rah]

Yet I'm sure this list has already gone viral and is being used as a cry for action.
The internet has strengths and WEAKNESSES.

 

[Commodore]

This is why there should be more support for homeschooling and online schooling. Can't shoot up a school if there aren't any schools to shoot up.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

This is why there should be more support for homeschooling and online schooling. Can't shoot up a school if there aren't any schools to shoot up.

And Amazon can replace all the stores so no more mall shootings, and we can just listen to music on our phones so no more concert shootings, and Netflix solves theater shootings, and televangelists solve church shootings...and when we get to where no one is going anywhere there won't be any more drive by shootings, and we can all just hole up in our rooms and in a single generation all the problems are solved.

 

[Perfection]

And Amazon can replace all the stores so no more mall shootings, and we can just listen to music on our phones so no more concert shootings, and Netflix solves theater shootings, and televangelists solve church shootings...and when we get to where no one is going anywhere there won't be any more drive by shootings, and we can all just hole up in our rooms and in a single generation all the problems are solved.

And then we shoot ourselves

 

[FriendlyFire]

What a broad definition for "school shooting", when it covers a veteran who committed suicide via gun in a parking lot on school property, and a criminal justice student who accidentally fired a weapon (at Grayson College, injuring nobody) that he had mistaken for a training weapon.

I through he had committed suicide at an Elementory school ?
Its a bit worrying was he there to pick up hes own kids or was it something more that prompted him to goto that elementory school and kill himself

Yeah the accident one shouldnt count, it is still strange for texas kid to bring a weapon to school, then for it to "accidently" go off

 

[Commodore]

And Amazon can replace all the stores so no more mall shootings, and we can just listen to music on our phones so no more concert shootings, and Netflix solves theater shootings, and televangelists solve church shootings...and when we get to where no one is going anywhere there won't be any more drive by shootings, and we can all just hole up in our rooms and in a single generation all the problems are solved.

Meh, that's where the world is heading anyway. Fortunately because of "test tube babies" we can ensure that being a species of isolated shut-ins won't be the end of us. An Amazon drone can just collect sperm and egg samples from everyone and new humans can be grown in laboratories. Parents for the lab grown children would either be selected from the sperm and egg donors that were used to create that particular child or they would be chosen at random in some kind of national lottery.

You know, this started as a joke, but now that I'm putting some thought into it, maybe we should encourage a more isolated society. It seems to be what people want nowadays and we have the technology (or will have it soon) to make it possible and workable, so I say why not?

 

[CurtSibling]

America's insanity of guns is clashing with it's failures to address bullying in schools.

Tragic chaos and horror.

 

[Farm Boy]

And then we shoot ourselves

Messy.

Pretty sure there's a profitable niche in cleaning that, specifically, though. Might be an entrepreneurial opportunity for the ironclad of stomach.

 

[Bugfatty300]

What a broad definition for "school shooting", when it covers a veteran who committed suicide via gun in a parking lot on school property, and a criminal justice student who accidentally fired a weapon (at Grayson College, injuring nobody) that he had mistaken for a training weapon.

3 of those incidents are actual "school shootings" (4 if you count the case where a non-student shot at students from a truck), as in "person goes into school to shoot people", and out of those three, only one is a "rampage" where the shooter killed indiscriminately (two, if you count the non-student, but he didn't kill anybody), the other two were targeted shootings of one specific individual.

The rest are either reported shots fired on school property, or nothing at all.

Overall, if I count correctly that's 5 dead (not counting the 2 suicides/self-killings).

Inflating statistics to make scary click baity headlines. (I assume the OP got this from a news feed since he didn't bother to post a link)

I've seen similar "journalism" pieces that included kids caught with plastic toys/water pistols as examples of school shootings.

 

[civvver]

I through he had committed suicide at an Elementory school ?
Its a bit worrying was he there to pick up hes own kids or was it something more that prompted him to goto that elementory school and kill himself

Yeah the accident one shouldnt count, it is still strange for texas kid to bring a weapon to school, then for it to "accidently" go off

The school had been closed since the summer. Could've been any empty parking lot anywhere essentially.

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com...ted-wound-after-hours-negotiation/1002904001/

I only googled it cus it's my home state and I hadn't seen this news. You'd think a school shooting would make state news. But it wasn't a school shooting. It was a suicide in the parking lot of a closed school.

 

[metalhead]

3 of those incidents are actual "school shootings" (4 if you count the case where a non-student shot at students from a truck), as in "person goes into school to shoot people", and out of those three, only one is a "rampage" where the shooter killed indiscriminately (two, if you count the non-student, but he didn't kill anybody), the other two were targeted shootings of one specific individual.

Oh, well in that case we should be celebrating!

 

[Ryika]

Oh, well in that case we should be celebrating!

This post has been identified as emotional and reactionary.

Please consider that a person who points out that a statistic or headline appears to have been designed to be sensationalist and misleading, does not automatically claim that the potentially very real problem that is being exploited does not exist. Their goal might just be to uncover the attempt of emotional manipulation, so people can have a discussion about the actual issue, not an inflated version that is not in line with reality.

 

[metalhead]

This post has been identified as emotional and reactionary.

Please consider that a person who points out that a statistic or headline appears to have been designed to be sensationalist and misleading, does not automatically claim that the potentially very real problem that is being exploited does not exist. Their goal might just be to uncover the attempt of emotional manipulation, so people can have a discussion about the actual issue, not an inflated version that is not in line with reality.

The problem with that reasoning is that the emotional heft is equal whether the correct number of shootings is 11, 3, or even 1. Any of those numbers of school shootings in a month is equally unacceptable and intolerable. So parsing whether the headline number is accurate rather misses the point entirely. And is often an attempt to actively obfuscate the issue and derail discussion of it in favor of the status quo.

 

[rah]

Whenever I see a something like this I have less trust in anything associated with the article and makes me less likely to take the source seriously in the future. So yes, exaggerating to make a point can sometimes have the opposite effect. Straight honest talk is always most effective with me. Others may have a different reaction.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Considering I googled "January 5: Iowa, School Bus" (with the quotes, so it only includes sites posted the words in that exact order), our new poster here also posted this information on a UK climbing website. So just as I thought, it's more of the "It's so terrible in America...."

The school bus was a middle-aged man shooting at a school bus with a pellet gun. Yeah, a window was busted and it's terrible that someone could have got hurt, but not what I suspected when I heard "school shooting".