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There have been at least 50 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of September 19. Thirteen were on college campuses, and 37 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left 24 people dead and at least 66 other victims injured, according to CNN’s analysis of events reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety.

https://www.cnn.com/us/school-shootings-fast-facts-dg/index.html

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

FFS! I never said the numbers weren't inflated! I asked for a better source! They refused to give one.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

edit: clarified my misunderstanding

~~If you want a better source, that's fine; I don't have one, I'm not that other guy and I'm not trying to prove anything myself. I just want to know what's wrong with NPR as a source, or what's wrong with that particular article.~~

~~I think you might be taking issue with the fact that~~ this guy wants to say the Gun Violence Archive counts non-shooting incidents as shootings? He's wrong, they don't; that GVA link points to "school incidents", where even finding a gun is counted. CNN's methodology for counting seems reasonable.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing's wrong with it. If that's a good source, it's a good source. They said the GVA source was a bad one, so I asked for a better one and got a bunch of lies about myself in return from them.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I misunderstood, it read in the conversation like you were rejecting NPR saying the actual numbers were pretty hard to confirm (which does make sense, what school official is going to want to talk to the press about violence that happened in their school?), and I couldn't figure out why 😅 Thanks for clarifying that!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago