Most school shootings aren’t mass killings, study finds, and they’re often driven by community violence | CNN
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Many Americans think of school shootings as mass casualty events involving an adolescent with an assault-style weapon. But a new study says that most recent school shootings orchestrated by teenagers do not fit that image — and they are often related to community violence.

Many Americans think of school shootings as mass casualty events involving an adolescent with an assault-style weapon. But a new study says that most recent school shootings orchestrated by teenagers do not fit that image — and they are often related to community violence.

The study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, analyzed 253 school shootings carried out by 262 adolescents in the US between 1990 and 2016.

It found that these adolescents were responsible for only a handful of mass casualty shootings, defined as those involving four or more gunshot fatalities. About half of the shootings analyzed — 119 — involved at least one death. Among the events, seven killed four or more people.

A majority of the shootings analyzed also involved handguns rather than assault rifles or shotguns, and they were often the result of “interpersonal disputes,” according to the researchers from University of South Carolina and University of Florida.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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      2 years ago

      More like fuck you I barley have shit and I’m not giving up my ability to protect myself from anyone that might be coming for it.

        • interceder270Banned from community
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          2 years ago

          I get it btw.

          Get what? That if you can’t fight and don’t own a gun then you’re at the mercy of the police you hate to protect you?

            • interceder270Banned from community
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              2 years ago

              and they have many of the same problems as the US

              Really? What nations are as polarizing as the US? Seems to me the vast majority of nations that aren’t as violent as the US are not nearly as diverse or suffer from the same extent of wealth inequality.

              Sweden, even with its anti-gun laws, has become the most dangerous scandinavian country by a longshot because they’re now dealing with racial problems the US has had to face for generations.

                • interceder270Banned from community
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                  2 years ago

                  Sweden’s problems aren’t the same as Germany or France.

                  But I don’t see how proliferating guns in Europe would help make these places safer.

                  That’s because you’re ignoring all the nations who have outlawed guns yet have worse gun violence than the US because of their culture. You cherrypick evidence to support your agenda and ignore evidence that goes against it.

                  Some would call that ‘biased,’ but that would make them a rational person.

        • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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          2 years ago

          I should probably clarify that I don’t actually own a gun. My previous comment is just the attitude I typically see from people who do. I don’t live in an area with a high crime rate that would necessitate one and I’d be far more likely to use it on myself before I was ever in a self defense situation. That being said if I still lived in the town I grew up where there were break ins every few weeks many of which included assaults I would have one for sure.