{"id":88258,"date":"2018-02-15T10:53:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=88258"},"modified":"2018-02-15T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:06:09","slug":"dont-believe-media-reports-claiming-18-school-shootings-in-us-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/dont-believe-media-reports-claiming-18-school-shootings-in-us-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Believe Media Reports Claiming, \u201918 School Shootings in US This Year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night while I was watching the nightly news, NBC\u2019s Lester Holt said that the shooting in Parkland, Florida marks the 18th school shooting this year. With a look of sadness and bewilderment, my girlfriend immediately asked me, \u201cIs that true?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holt went on to talk about living in a \u201cnew normal,\u201d the implication being that school shootings on the scale of Columbine and Sandy Hook are now everyday occurrences in our country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lie,\u201d I said to my girlfriend. \u201cOr, at the very least, it\u2019s grossly misleading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consider the source. Everytown for Gun Safety. The gun-control organization funded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. That\u2019s where this misguided stat is coming from. What Everytown has done is they\u2019ve cleverly redefined \u201cschool shooting\u201d to mean \u201cany time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the public hears \u201cschool shooting,\u201d they don\u2019t think of the Metropolitan High School in New York, NY where a 17-year-old fired a gun, hitting the floor of a classroom injuring no one or Grayson College in Denison, TX, where a student accidentally fired a loaded gun, breaking a window. According to reports, she believed it to be an unloaded training weapon. The gun belonged\u00a0to an advisor who was permitted to carry on campus.\u00a0 No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Those incidents aren\u2019t what come to mind when we hear \u201cschool shooting.\u201d But they both appear on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/everytownresearch.org\/school-shootings\/?source=etno_ETRHomepage&amp;utm_source=et_n_&amp;utm_medium=_o&amp;utm_campaign=ETRHomepage&amp;refcode=ETRHomepage#5878\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-media-reports-claiming-18-school-shootings-in-us-this-year\" title=\"Don\u2019t Believe Media Reports Claiming, \u201918 School Shootings in US This Year\u2019\">Everytown\u2019s tracker<\/a>.\u00a0 And the media does a piss-poor job of explaining this to viewers, wholly omitting these stories and others like them from their coverage. Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/widget\/video-embed\/1161826371910\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cynics out there might say, well, who cares how Everytown defines school shootings. Mass killings are on the rise. Violence in this country has got out of hand!<\/p>\n<p>Again, not true. This is more media spin. As I\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/mass-shootings-on-the-rise-a-definitive-inquiry\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-media-reports-claiming-18-school-shootings-in-us-this-year\" title=\"Don\u2019t Believe Media Reports Claiming, \u201918 School Shootings in US This Year\u2019\">written in the past<\/a>, the reality is that there are about 21 mass murders per year involving firearms. That trend has been constant for almost two decades.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that back in the \u201970s and \u201980s mass public shootings (which are a subset of mass murders, differentiated because they happen in public places, e.g. churches, schools, workplaces, as opposed to a home or residence), were less frequent than they are today but that\u2019s because there were fewer people. When population growth is considered in the analysis, the apparent uptick from decade to decade disappears.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/mass-shootings-on-the-rise-a-definitive-inquiry\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-media-reports-claiming-18-school-shootings-in-us-this-year\" title=\"Don\u2019t Believe Media Reports Claiming, \u201918 School Shootings in US This Year\u2019\">Mass Shootings on the Rise? A Definitive Inquiry<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s also important to note that, generally speaking, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crime_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-media-reports-claiming-18-school-shootings-in-us-this-year\" title=\"Don\u2019t Believe Media Reports Claiming, \u201918 School Shootings in US This Year\u2019\">crime is down<\/a>. Violent crime, property crime, and the homicide rate per 100,000 people have all been dropping in recent years. This, despite the fact (or because of the fact), that we are more armed than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>What does this all mean? That although things may appear to be worse than they once were, the opposite is probably true. Society is safer today than it was back then or, depending on the decade, as safe as it was yesteryear.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88261\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-10.45.33-AM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-media-reports-claiming-18-school-shootings-in-us-this-year\" title=\"Don\u2019t Believe Media Reports Claiming, \u201918 School Shootings in US This Year\u2019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88261\" title=\"Don\u2019t Believe Media Reports Claiming, \u201918 School Shootings in US This Year\u2019\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-10.45.33-AM-1024x507.png\" alt=\"Don\u2019t Believe Media Reports Claiming, \u201918 School Shootings in US This Year\u2019\" width=\"1024\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-10.45.33-AM-1024x507.png 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-10.45.33-AM-150x74.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-10.45.33-AM-400x198.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-10.45.33-AM-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-10.45.33-AM.png 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-88261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the description for one of this year&#8217;s &#8220;school shootings,&#8221; according to Everytown: &#8220;A criminal justice club student picked up a loaded gun, belonging to an advisor, which the student thought was an unloaded training weapon. She then shot at a wall target, unintentionally firing a bullet, which went through the wall and broke a window. The advisor was a licensed peace officer permitted to carry a firearm on campus.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t do more about school shootings. Why we haven\u2019t done more to fortify schools against these attacks is a question worth asking. We\u2019ve known since Columbine that high schools and colleges are likely targets.<\/p>\n<p>Mental health continues to be an issue that flies under the radar after these tragedies. Reports say that the troubled perpetrator of the attack in Parkland, FL, had a bunch of red flags signaling that he, might, in fact, want to kill people. Including a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/fbi-warned-cruz-professional-school-shooter-plans-months-article-1.3822163\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dont-believe-media-reports-claiming-18-school-shootings-in-us-this-year\" title=\"Don\u2019t Believe Media Reports Claiming, \u201918 School Shootings in US This Year\u2019\"> post on a Youtube page<\/a> that read, \u201cI\u2019m going to be a professional school shooter.\u201d\u00a0 The FBI was notified.\u00a0 But nothing happened.<\/p>\n<p>As with most mass killings, the warning signs were all there. We just weren\u2019t paying attention or doing enough to make a difference. For me, that\u2019s where this conversation ought to start. How do we do a better job stopping mass killers before they have a chance to act?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been 18 school shootings this year, according to Everytown for Gun Safety.  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