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The School Shootings That Weren't

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https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

From the article:

This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.

But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.
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That's an amazing discrepancy.

What people really want to know is how many incidents involved someone (a student or otherwise) who intentionally entered a school (or the school grounds) with the intent to shoot and kill someone.

All the extraneous data skews perspective and should be eliminated from the data collecting.
 
HowardBThiname said:
That's an amazing discrepancy.

What people really want to know is how many incidents involved someone (a student or otherwise) who intentionally entered a school (or the school grounds) with the intent to shoot and kill someone.

All the extraneous data skews perspective and should be eliminated from the data collecting.
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I would argue that they would are looking for more than that. That the intent was “anyone” and not just someone.
 
tac138777 said:
I would argue that they would are looking for more than that. That the intent was “anyone” and not just someone.
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Is the intent to injure/kill with any weapon in a school not cause for concern? The intent is clearly to address only the abuse of a gun and thus to justify more 'gun control' measures.
 
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