Take a guess.

  • davel [he/him]
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    421 month ago

    The year ain’t over, and I’d bet money that the shootings ain’t, either.

  • @[email protected]
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    271 month ago

    I’m guessing roughly 1 a day.

    I want to add, it’s not shocking. It is impossible to afford any kind of real mental health care. $50 sessions for a therapist are only worth their weight in gold; only if you can afford it.

    If you or your child needed therapy you are looking at ~7 hours of minimum wage once a week in order to afford it assuming you have insurance.

    We don’t take mental health seriously in the United States.

      • ZoDoneRightNow
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        291 month ago

        Actually, @[email protected] is closer. There have been 323 in the US this year which makes it 0.93 school shootings per day or 1.79 school shootings per school day in the US (assuming 180 school days a year)

          • @[email protected]
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            91 month ago

            They’re running with different definitions, is all. Given every school shooting is highly preventable, either number is valid.

            • @stevestevesteve
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              Unlike other data sources, this information includes gang shootings, domestic violence, shootings at sports games and afterhours school events, suicides, fights that escalate into shootings, and accidents.

              Using this wide definition is clearly muddying the waters of what is colloquially known as a school shooting. Those words make people think of uvalde and Columbine, indiscriminately shooting many of the kids. Suicides, accidents, etc are MUCH different and implying they’re the same is actively harming genuine discourse on the topic.

              • Aaron
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                31 month ago

                Exactly my thoughts. 80+ is already a horrific number, it’s not going to make people more likely to act to artificially balloon the number 3x. There could be 1000 school shootings in one year and I doubt the US people or Govt would do a thing. They actively choose this every day.

    • @cheese_greater
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      Even with therapy, its often an issue with the home environment that cant be mental.health.care’d away. Often theres a raging psycho creating a shit environment and making everyone crave for them to just fuck off and let them live and thats often exactly what everyone needs

      Psychos dont tend to pursue non-flattering diagnoses and admitting their imperfections or straight-up schemings

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      Well, Israel and Russia are trying to claim some room in that space, but yeah, it’s still probably “most of them”.

    • wellDuuh
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      21 month ago

      Good’ol minor “collateral”

    • @Vinny_93
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      131 month ago

      Anything you’d like to share with the rest of the class? I remember seeing a number like 300 of 400 at some point

    • wellDuuh
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      21 month ago

      Cool, now you know how billionaires feel every single day

  • @Eheran
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    111 month ago

    Nothing they can do about it!

      • @Professorozone
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        21 month ago

        That’s not the solution. We need more guns. Since there are more guns than people in the US, I would guess the shootings would end when we have 2/person. Or maybe more powerful guns or twice as many cops. I’m really not an expert on this.

  • @[email protected]
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    I think I hear about a school shooting about once every two or three months. And, I believe underreporting at a national level paired with myself not having time to keep up means that I hear about roughly one in every hundred shootings.

    Typically there’s about 180 days of school per year.

    Crunching some vague math, my guess seems preposterous: ~340 school shootings in 2024. That’s almost two per day. But, the more I thought about it the less preposterous it seemed.

    TL;DR - My guess is a seemingly preposterous 340 school shootings in 2024, or almost 2 per school day.

    • Maeve
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      81 month ago

      323, according to Google. Idk if that includes yesterday’s.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        It’s fallacy fallacy. I got close to the right answer for highly-questionable subjective reasoning that’s barely better than luck.