Is it 2024?
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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Education system is truly broken
The year ainβt over, and Iβd bet money that the shootings ainβt, either.
Won't most American schools be on their break by now?
Next week for us.
I'm guessing roughly 1 a day.
I want to add, it's not shocking. It is impossible to afford any kind of real mental health care. $50 sessions for a therapist are only worth their weight in gold; only if you can afford it.
If you or your child needed therapy you are looking at ~7 hours of minimum wage once a week in order to afford it assuming you have insurance.
We don't take mental health seriously in the United States.
school shootings, more like 1-2 a week.
Regular mass shootings are up to 8 in a day.
Actually, @[email protected] is closer. There have been 323 in the US this year which makes it 0.93 school shootings per day or 1.79 school shootings per school day in the US (assuming 180 school days a year)
https://edition.cnn.com/us/school-shootings-fast-facts-dg/index.html says it's "only" 83 this year?
They're running with different definitions, is all. Given every school shooting is highly preventable, either number is valid.
Unlike other data sources, this information includes gang shootings, domestic violence, shootings at sports games and afterhours school events, suicides, fights that escalate into shootings, and accidents.
Using this wide definition is clearly muddying the waters of what is colloquially known as a school shooting. Those words make people think of uvalde and Columbine, indiscriminately shooting many of the kids. Survives, accidents, etc are MUCH different and implying they're the same is actively harming genuine discourse on the topic.
Exactly my thoughts. 80+ is already a horrific number, it's not going to make people more likely to act to artificially balloon the number 3x. There could be 1000 school shootings in one year and I doubt the US people or Govt would do a thing. They actively choose this every day.
My numbers are coming from the K-12 School Shooting Database. They probably use different definitions. The stat I was going by was just what I saw most articles in my country going by (Australia).
Even with therapy, its often an issue with the home environment that cant be mental.health.care'd away. Often theres a raging psycho creating a shit environment and making everyone crave for them to just fuck off and let them live and thats often exactly what everyone needs
Psychos dont tend to pursue non-flattering diagnoses and admitting their imperfections or straight-up schemings
Cost of doing business.
Good'ol minor "collateral"
I cheated. Holy smoke!
Anything you'd like to share with the rest of the class? I remember seeing a number like 300 of 400 at some point
So what's official number?
According to this article by ABC, there was 323 school shootings and in the US this year, down 26 from last year.
Cool, now you know how billionaires feel every single day
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.
323, according to Google. Idk if that includes yesterday's.
It's fallacy fallacy. I got close to the right answer for highly-questionable subjective reasoning that's barely better than luck.
Not bad for a guess! I was floored, by the number.
I don't have the heart to make a joke here. I'm just tired
Nothing they can do about it!
Have they tried "thoughts and prayers"?
That's not the solution. We need more guns. Since there are more guns than people in the US, I would guess the shootings would end when we have 2/person. Or maybe more powerful guns or twice as many cops. I'm really not an expert on this.
Too many