March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002
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Re: March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002
#2Bad statistic. School has been either cancelled or online.
It's be like saying "No electrocutions" in the 1700s or no "social media anything's in the 1800s".
Re: March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002
#3There were a lot of firsts in March 2020.
Re: March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002
#4Bad statistic. School has been either cancelled or online. It's be like saying "No electrocutions" in the 1700s or no "social media anything's in the 1800s".
School wasn't cancelled nationwide in early March. My area didn't cancel school until March 15th.
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#5Bad statistic. School has been either cancelled or online. It's be like saying "No electrocutions" in the 1700s or no "social media anything's in the 1800s".
That's not what it's saying. The headline is suggesting it's notable that there has been a school shooting each March since 2003.
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#6Bad statistic. School has been either cancelled or online. It's be like saying "No electrocutions" in the 1700s or no "social media anything's in the 1800s".
Pretty sure that’s the main point of the article. It took a global pandemic for us to not have a shooting
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#7Bad statistic. School has been either cancelled or online. It's be like saying "No electrocutions" in the 1700s or no "social media anything's in the 1800s".
It's a statistic, but not terribly useful. I wouldn't consider ongoing pandemic lockdowns as some sort of solution for what comes down to a cultural problem. Incidentally, we made the problem go away artificially, but that doesn't mean that we really know anything as a result besides that school shootings don't happen when there's no school to shoot up.
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#8Bad statistic. School has been either cancelled or online. It's be like saying "No electrocutions" in the 1700s or no "social media anything's in the 1800s".
The point of the article is to explain the happy statistical exception
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#9Bad statistic. School has been either cancelled or online. It's be like saying "No electrocutions" in the 1700s or no "social media anything's in the 1800s".
Right. The takeaway isn't that it's a victory for gun control. It's that under the status quo, it takes an absence of school attendance for there to be an absence of shootings.
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#10"there were a total of seven shootings that took place on school campuses in March 2020. Four of those shootings were classified as unintentional discharges, one took place between adults on a high school football field over the weekend and two occurred on college campuses but involved no students."
I find it odd that these don't count, and that they happened in the first place.