• Captain Jimmy T Kirk@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Because a columbine type of school shooting is different than property damage.

      And people writing these articles know that “some destructive teens did donuts in the school parking lot at night and shot the stop sign” isn’t what people think when they say that a “school shooting” has happened.

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        If they kill a Columbine -1, is that a school shooting? What if they try to massacre people but there are no fatalities, is that a school shooting? The attempt to make “school shooting” fit only the worst case scenario means we ignore a problem until it has had its absolute worst outcome.

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          Is it a school shooting if it’s two people in a parking lot at midnight on a Tuesday that are selling drugs? I would say no. Calling it a school shooting implies that the school/children are targeted specifically. Being dishonest about the facts backfires basically every time, as it shows you aren’t acting in good faith.

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        1 year ago

        Axios didn’t make the term up, the National Center for Educational Statistics did.

        Your premise seems to be that these are mostly no big deal and the term school shooting is being used deliberately to conjure images of Columbine. It’s not clear how you reached that conclusion when the number of casualties of school shootings has nearly doubled year over year, per the article.