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.

  • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgOPM
    2·
    11 days ago

    Per WPR:

    According to a CNN analysis, there have been at least 83 school shootings across the country this year, including 56 at K-12 schools, with at least 38 fatalities.

    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.

      • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        11 days ago

        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.

        • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
          1·
          11 days ago

          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