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  • In the wake of the recent tragedy in Marysville, Washington, many websites and pundits are

  • calling out the high number of School Shootings that have happened since Sandy Hook. Many

  • claim that there have been 87 school shootings since december 2012; a number that’s both

  • alarming, and misleading.

  • When we hearschool shootingwe generally think of a person entering campus with the

  • intent to kill or injure numerous students. We think of tragedies like Columbine, Virginia

  • Tech

  • and Sandy Hook. Since December 2012, there have been 11 of these types of school shootings

  • - meaning 11 times, in the United States, gunmen have fired upon multiple people, on

  • school

  • property, with the intent to kill or injure. That is a shocking number. But it’s also

  • way less than

  • the 87 times the media is reporting. So, what makes up those 76 other incidents?

  • Well, the number being quoted comes from a non-profit group called Everytown For Gun

  • Safety. Their goal is to end gun violence. The majority of shootings that theyre categorizing

  • as

  • school shootingsare shootings that happen at or near schools, but theyre not

  • what you tend

  • to think of when you hear the termschool shooting.” For instance, their list includes

  • a man who

  • was murdered at night behind a school, a teenager shot on a school basketball court during

  • a weekend pickup game, and spontaneous shootings that stemmed from arguments, fights,

  • and drug deals. It also includes suicides, attempted suicides, domestic assaults, premeditated

  • murders, robberies, and accidental gun discharges. All of these are serious events that bring

  • up

  • separate issues. But they don’t bring up the same issues or emotions, that a school

  • shooting

  • like Sandy Hook or Columbine does.

  • The fact that there have been 11 tragedies like Sandy Hook, and not 87, doesn’t change

  • the

  • way we feel about these tragedies. Eleven shootings in less than two years, is still

  • a shockingly

  • high incident rate. But we also shouldn‘t discount the 76 other incidents. They all

  • matter. And

  • by not lumping them all together, we can address a wider range of issues. What should we be

  • doing about gun safety? Or teen suicide? Or domestic abuse? What can we do to keep drugs

  • and crime out of our classrooms? How can we deal with teenage anger? Or staff burnout?

  • By

  • focusing on the specifics, we may be able to prevent the next school shooting, but we

  • can also address these other problems, too. Plus, releasing a statement saying there

  • have been 87 school shootings creates more debate about the specific number and less

  • about the actual problems.

In the wake of the recent tragedy in Marysville, Washington, many websites and pundits are

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自桑迪胡克事件以來,已經發生了多少起校園槍擊案? (How Many School Shootings Have Happened Since Sandy Hook?)

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    Cheng-Hong Liu 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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