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78? Really? What are we qualifying, “school” as THESE days???
Sarcasm, if that wasn’t implied.
You're not wrong to question this. "Gun Violence Archive" labels any shooting (as in literally any time a gun goes off) on school property a "school shooting". Some teacher ices themself in the parking lot? School shooting. Some gang kids blast each other in the yard at 1am? School shooting. Someone pops off a negligent discharge that doesn't hit anyone? School shooting.
CNN has tweaked this formula by only including times someone besides the shooter actually got shot, so a bit better than usual but still a useless number that we can't use to make informed decisions.
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