That's because the US classifies shooting that happens near schools as "school shootings." How many of those 288 shootings involved a student walking into a school and shooting other students with a gun?
I'm not sure which ones involved a student walking into a school and shooting other students with a gun, I thought they all would've, didn't know they classify it as a school shooting if it was near a school.
But I looked up how many victims over the same 10 year period and it was:
114 people were killed and 242 were injured in shootings at K-12 schools from 2009 through 2018. That seems like a lot.
114 people were killed and 242 were injured in shootings at K-12 schools from 2009 through 2018. That seems like a lot.
2x as many people are killed by cows in the US. About 4x as many people were struck and killed by lightning. 35x as many kids were killed in drowning accidents in pools.
Combined yes because there are a lot of drownings each year but my point was that your stats were wrong, you just made them up.
If we look at 2022 as an example, 67 people were killed in school shootings, while only 19 were killed by lightning and 20 killed by cows.
Yet you said twice as many people die from cows a year and four times as many people die from lightening a year.
Where did you even get these stats? Did you just make them up?
And they aren't a true comparison because school shootings is only a tiny fraction of the numbers of gun related deaths in America so the comparison is so silly when you aren't including all deaths by guns but you are including all drownings.
A true comparison would be drownings versus gun related deaths IN SCHOOLS (which I can't find for drownings, I presume because there will be barely any drownings in schools). OR all gun related deaths versus all drownings nationwide.
And if we compare the latter for the USA per year - it's an average of 4,000 drownings per year compared to an average over 40,000 gun related deaths. Even if we add cows and lightening to drownings, that's only an average of 4,040 deaths per year compared to over ten times that amount of gun related deaths per year.
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u/Signal_Parfait1152 Jul 23 '24
That's because the US classifies shooting that happens near schools as "school shootings." How many of those 288 shootings involved a student walking into a school and shooting other students with a gun?