Many Americans think of school shootings as mass casualty events involving an adolescent with an assault-style weapon. But a new study says that most recent school shootings orchestrated by teenagers do not fit that image — and they are often related to community violence.
The study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, analyzed 253 school shootings carried out by 262 adolescents in the US between 1990 and 2016.
It found that these adolescents were responsible for only a handful of mass casualty shootings, defined as those involving four or more gunshot fatalities. About half of the shootings analyzed — 119 — involved at least one death. Among the events, seven killed four or more people.
A majority of the shootings analyzed also involved handguns rather than assault rifles or shotguns, and they were often the result of “interpersonal disputes,” according to the researchers from University of South Carolina and University of Florida.
So if it’s not a mass shooting, we should be fine with it, that’s the angle?
An example from the article:
So basically “black people commit more violence” is what this is trying to say.
What a useless, trashy, racist article
Basically, white incels aren’t the main contributors to school shooting statistics.
Why does acknowledging this upset you?
So, yes, apparently. Fuck guns.
I still don’t see the distinction.
Rather I see what seems like an arbitrary distinction. The authors are trying to make. What I don’t see is why that distinction is relevant.
From the quote that was provided to you:
There needs to be a distinction so that it can be more appropriately and efficiently prevented.
Because the solutions look different.
“take away the guns” would solve for both
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Sure, but there’s still a difference between school violence with guns and school violence with fists
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“My son got beat up in school today”
“My son got shot and killed in school today”
It’s the guns. It’s always been the guns. And that’s why this country is uniquely dealing with this problem. It’s not hard to see it, unless you don’t want to.
It might partially solve for it, by reducing severity of these acts, but guns are really just a means to violence. There are plenty of other ways to enact violence if that’s what you want to do.
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No, that’s just a distraction the ruling class throws at us to prevent us from addressing the real issue: the disparity in wealth.
Sweden has a higher wealth inequality index than the United States. Strange, how that doesn’t lead to an epidemic of school shootings without unfettered access to guns.
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No the person I’m replying to is.
While it may be a factor, I’m pointing out America is by no means unique in having these problems, such as wealth inequality. In fact all the problems so often touted as the cause for gun violence are not unique to America. The main exception is the incredible proliferation of guns and the lax regulations surrounding them.
But many Americans love their guns, as long as they don’t have to pay the price in blood for it, they’ll continue blaming other factors…
Bad example. Sweden is currently suffering the worst gun violence of any scandinavian country.
I know. It’s still way better than the US. Because guns are a bigger factor than wealth disparity, mental health care, social homogeneity, or anything else which is typically pointed to by people who value their access to guns more than other’s lives.
It’s a specious argument.
How did you get that? Did we read the same article?
We should be angry about the media narrative pushed by some that banning guns that look scary and limiting magazine sizes will do anything.
This shows that teaching non-violent conflict resolution, and getting the larger community to buy in would eliminate almost all shootings. Students need better interpersonal skills, and they need role models to show what those skills look like.
No matter what you do, there’s always going to be people freaking out and having homicidal urges. People are imperfect that way.
Maybe that’s why most of the rest of the world doesn’t allow them have tools to easily kill people at a distance.
Most of it actually does – very few places have total bans on firearms, they just don’t let people buy semi-automatic weapons on a whim.
It’s gruelling to accurately explain what gun control is to every pro-gun dildo on social media that feels entitled to a personal explanation (that they’ll spit back in your face anyway).
But its important to remember that the pro-gun community isn’t fighting “no guns for anyone ever”, they’re fighting “you need to pass a background check, prove you know how to safely store and use a firearm and not hit your wife”
Are you being ignorant on purpose, or is this just an accident?