The Washington Post spent a year determining how many children have been affected by school shootings, beyond just those killed or injured. To do that, reporters attempted to identify every act of gunfire at a primary or secondary school during school hours since the Columbine High massacre on April 20, 1999.
Shootings at after-hours events, accidental discharges that caused no injuries to anyone other than the person handling the gun, and suicides that occurred privately or posed no threat to other children were excluded. Gunfire at colleges and universities, which affects young adults rather than kids, also was not counted.
After finding more than 200 incidents of gun violence that met The Post’s criteria, reporters organized them in a database for analysis. Because the federal government does not track school shootings, it’s possible that the database does not contain every incident that would qualify. To calculate how many children were exposed to gunfire in each school shooting, The Post relied on enrollment figures and demographic information from the U.S. Education Department, including the Common Core of Data and the Private School Universe Survey. The analysis used attendance figures from the year of the shooting for the vast majority of the schools.
RogerBaron6 —and I hope every single one of them votes to protect future students from this dire scourge of American life.
No American pro unlimited gun rights or no must test until guns no longer permeate our schools.
Gee, I wonder if it might be because the mainstream media hyper-promotes school shootings & turns the killers into overnight celebrities? 🤔 Imagine all those lonely, angry kids who desperately want attention & have the perfect mechanism for becoming an unforgettable legend?🤨
TJQuinnESPN Will they vote?
From Australia: I love the USA, but what the heck is wrong with you? Vote those NRA loving politicians out and look after your kids. It’s not a hard problem if you put your mind to it, we solved it
Too many!
And that’s just at their own schools, not to mention everyone who has friends at those schools.
When your child takes your gun to school and murders their class mates you should go to prison.
GunViolence means GunControl.
Once again liberals only care about gun violence when suburban whites get shot
It's effin horrible but, is it 228K or 210K?
Shameful. Vote democratic. Get rid of the republican nra lovers.
And yet, nothing has been learned
Thoughts and prayers are not working
horrible
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