Here we go again.
(edited title to revise death toll down per latest reporting; we’ll see if it stays that way)
0027CST update: The shooter has been identified as a 15-year-old girl, whom I won’t name given standard journalistic practice for minors. That’s available in the link, alongside an inexplicable reference to her sometimes using another name, as though this is somehow relevant. The good news is two have been released from hospital, but two remain in critical condition.
“Before Monday’s shooting, there had been at least 81 school shootings in the United States in 2024, according to a CNN analysis.”
It never stopped. That is an average of about 7 a month. This country is rotting
From CNN:
but the death of a single CEO is what we should be focusing on, right?
Right? Like, the most upside down priorities in this country
But unlike every victim of a mass shooting, Brian had a family.
Interesting fun fact, given the death count: This is the 38th time The Onion has run this story since first appearing in May 2014.
Because CEOs are actual people, while the rest of us are just proles and don’t matter.
Per WPR:
One more, and we hit seven for the year. Though I’m a bit confused how we jumped from 81 to 83 with a single incident.
CNN says they are counting all shootings on school grounds, which I think is fair. They have their info here
https://www.cnn.com/us/school-shootings-fast-facts-dg/index.html
It would be nice if they’d list, separately, how many of these are shootings that actually happened during school hours with students or faculty involved rather than just like, unrelated adults shooting one another in a school zone at night. Both are bad, certainly, but it’s kind of undercutting the issue to pretend one is the other when reporting the statistics. Whether that substantially pads the statistics or not, it would be good to know.
I will look into the raw data later this week. Gun Violence Archive has a lot of data, but that might not be available.
Oh, I’m not arguing their methodology, merely that 81 + 1 != 83.
I’ll have to look at the data more later this week. I think CNN is actually off in the other direction if the Gun Violence Archive is correct