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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

I think I hear about a school shooting about once every two or three months. And, I believe underreporting at a national level paired with myself not having time to keep up means that I hear about roughly one in every hundred shootings.

Typically there's about 180 days of school per year.

Crunching some vague math, my guess seems preposterous: ~340 school shootings in 2024. That's almost two per day. But, the more I thought about it the less preposterous it seemed.

TL;DR - My guess is a seemingly preposterous 340 school shootings in 2024, or almost 2 per school day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

323, according to Google. Idk if that includes yesterday's.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

It's fallacy fallacy. I got close to the right answer for highly-questionable subjective reasoning that's barely better than luck.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

I don't have the heart to make a joke here. I'm just tired

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