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Government Report Inflates Number of School Shootings in the US

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the Gun-manipulation dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.

But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.

We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.

In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn't confirm one. In at least four cases, we found, something did happen, but it didn't meet the government's parameters for a shooting. About a quarter of schools didn't respond to our inquiries.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Whoever on Wednesday August 29 2018, @05:52AM (2 children)

    by Whoever (4524) on Wednesday August 29 2018, @05:52AM (#727689) Journal

    Nice troll. There were several right-wing talking points that are not really connected to reality, but this one:

    Do you hate that she did the womanly thing and actually had 4 children? She has a stake in the future of America. She has skin in the game.

    That really had me laughing out loud. Her money (none of which she earned) insulates her from any of the issues that she is causing. Her children and grandchildren will never study at anything other than a private school. She has zero skin in the game.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:42PM (#727895)

    She has zero skin in the game.

    No, she has white skin in the game.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @06:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @06:54PM (#727940)

    First of all, her descendants will not all be rich. Eventually they will be numerous and some of them will be poor. She may even get poor great grandchildren.

    Second of all, her descendants will suffer if America does badly. Even if they are not poor, they still must live in a country full of typical Americans. It is different for somebody like Merkle, who has no reason to give a damn if Germany becomes like Somalia in 40 years. Merkle will be long dead.