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

  • voracitude@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Sorry bud, I do usually agree with you, but I think you might be in the wrong on this one. Why don’t you find the NPR article convincing that maybe these numbers are might be inflated (edit: didn’t mean to use a declarative statement there)? Are you contending that NPR is misrepresenting the numbers and/or trying to push an agenda? They don’t really have a track record of either as far as I’m aware.

    edit 2: leaving this because it’s still true:

    Looking at the actual scope of an issue isn’t downplaying it. Nor is checking if the reporting is accurate. And accurate reporting (of data, I mean, as opposed to news) is extremely important when passing laws, so it is something to care about.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

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

      • voracitude@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        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.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          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
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            1 month ago

            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!