A column focusing on school shootings. hill pointed Everytown for Gun Safety announced that any shooting inside a school will be counted as a school shooting, even if the bullet hits a building on the school grounds.
of hill Even gun control groups disagree about how many school shootings actually occur, because they have different definitions of what constitutes such a shooting. I reported this while pointing it out.
For example, Education Week “counts only incidents that occur during school hours or at school-sponsored events,” resulting in 39 confirmed shootings in 2024. But Everytown found 219 such shootings, saying it “counts every time a gun is fired on school grounds. No one was injured or killed.”
Everytown website admit The group “tracks every time a firearm fires live ammunition in or on school buildings or onto school campuses, grounds, or property.” This means that it counts not only incidents in which a gun is fired and no one is shot, but also incidents in which a person is shot and killed or injured.
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Everytown accomplishes this by relying on its K-12 shooting database to do its footwork. Website The group describes the group as saying, “Regardless of the number of victims, the time, day, or reason, a gun is fired or brandished (pointed with intent at a person), or a bullet hits school property.'' The organization explains that it is an organization that “records people's activities.”
On December 9, 2014, Everytown published a list of 100 school shootings that it claimed occurred in the nearly two years since a man with a stolen firearm attacked Sandy Hook Elementary School. did. Breitbart News noted that Everytown's list includes shootings outside of school, shootings that did not occur, and accidental discharges of legally owned firearms on campus.
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