In 2023, there were 349 shootings. In 2024, there were 332 [1]. By the pigeonhole principle [2], it’s a guarantee that a shooting takes place on the anniversary of at least one other shooting.
I cited where I found those statistics. Their methodology included events such as brandishing firearms, bullets hitting schools, and premeditated school shootings. It’s not mass school shootings with fatalities occurring nearly every day of the year, but my point still stands: there have been enough of them in general that the pigeonhole principle applies.
Except you stated 349 school shootings. When that’s wildly incorrect. Gang members shooting at each other near a school is not a school shooting. Brandishing a firearm near a school is not a school shooting. Bullets hitting a school building from gang violence is not a school shooting.
Even NPR did a section on how inaccurate these statistics are.
A horrifying fact:
In 2023, there were 349 shootings. In 2024, there were 332 [1]. By the pigeonhole principle [2], it’s a guarantee that a shooting takes place on the anniversary of at least one other shooting.
It’s bad enough but we don’t need to spread false narratives.
I cited where I found those statistics. Their methodology included events such as brandishing firearms, bullets hitting schools, and premeditated school shootings. It’s not mass school shootings with fatalities occurring nearly every day of the year, but my point still stands: there have been enough of them in general that the pigeonhole principle applies.
Except you stated 349 school shootings. When that’s wildly incorrect. Gang members shooting at each other near a school is not a school shooting. Brandishing a firearm near a school is not a school shooting. Bullets hitting a school building from gang violence is not a school shooting.
Even NPR did a section on how inaccurate these statistics are.
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent