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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:44PM
Even in places where you'd expect there to be the stereotypical friendliness and peace, there are school shootings, and stabbings, and bombings. Before they were tracking these things there have been situations like this. The difference is so many get tons of publicity which is what many of these people wanted. In the modern world, there is nothing you can do to stop things like this. Take away guns and they stab. Take away knifes and they bomb. Make it harder to bomb and they simply plow trucks into buildings and people. They will continue to do so until people address the actual problem. The shooting, stabbing, bombing is the symptom. Removing more and more tools (almost all of which have many legit purposes on their own, the exception being bombs) and you stop nothing. Address the mental health, unrest, disassociation, income issues, and then maybe you'll be on to something.
Even still, you will not solve all. Norway has a nearly homogeneous population, high living standards, high health standards, generally low crime, generally strict gun laws, and STILL a nutter with a gun took out 87 people.