This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, “nearly 240 schools … reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.” The number is far higher than most other estimates.
But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government’s Civil Rights Data Collection.
We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.”
What could possibly account for the discrepancy?
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights administers the survey every two years.
Oh.
Wow! NPR!? … I am shocked. Although they did find an opportunity to mock Betsy DeVos. When the leftist, biased, media start reporting the TRUTH, and stop “accepting” statistical manipulation as “truth” (see: “Climate Change”)… our nation will begin healing.
I believe the TRUTH of President Trump … might … just be changing the culture. Or … NPR has an ulterior motive to do a detailed, proper, investigative, examination of the statistical claims. But I cannot surmise what that motive might be? Defending Public School and Culture as … “safe”? Search me?
Gun grabbers mislead, lie and omit whatever they need to about everything and anything to do with weapons – south of the border and north.
Bingo! You nailed it. They follow Goebbels dictum of if you tell a lie often enough it soon becomes truth.
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the genius of justin trudeau…
“All we need to do is take guns away from
farmers, hunters & skeet shooters…
not criminals or mental patients…”
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There is an article on Wikipedia that lists all USA school shootings since the year 1840 and is updated as they occur. By my count there were eleven in the 2015-16 school year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States#2015_to_present
Thank you for the link. I get 17 shootings 24 killed from your link for the school year September 2015 to June 2016. It’s more if you consider some states start school in August. Nine of those shootings occured at High Schools, the rest were at colleges and universities. Am I missing something?
Correct you are. Sorry, math is hard and I can’t count past ten without taking off my pants.
Point remains, with or without including post-secondary institutions, that the numbers the NPR was investigating were ridiculously exaggerated. I can’t think that whoever is contributing to this Wikipedia page somehow missed most of the incidents. And whoever wrote the original story would have found this resource with about 30 seconds of research on Google.
I have property in Mexico and the same thing happens. You read some story about dozens of gangland-style murders in the area, and everyone is like, “Huh? We had one murder, and it was that loser guy who was always getting in trouble and his wife killed him with a frying pan.” You have to wonder what the impetus is for folks to exaggerate these things.
It’s not lying if you want it to be true.
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toronto… come for the exotic cuisine,
stay for the sucking chest wound…
“Mayor Pinocchio also claims, ‘about
half of handguns used in crimes are
from domestic sources.'”
Let’s take a closer look at that statement…
“When CBC reporter Evan Dyer contacted
the Canadian Firearms Program and asked
for the supporting data, the RCMP replied
that no such data exists.”
oops.
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NPR? I am shocked. They are in danger of expulsion from legitimate news media.
“school-related shooting.”…sounds like they counted ever kid…in Chicago….that might have gone to school
Or were on their way to or fro school … where the crossfire hurricane of gang warfare rains a hail of bullets on the “school”children
That’s what they do, people. They invent problems, or wildly exaggerate trivial inconveniences, that can only be managed by a pampered bureaucracy. All real problems are ignored until they inconvenience the elite personally, by which time undoing the damage is impossible.
One day we’ll find out how many of those 11 shootings were staged by Deep State agents trying to make patriots look bad.
Don’t look for conspiracy when mental illness is quite sufficient.
NPR and public broadcasting in general has been getting less and less public monetary support. They’re on another crusade as I type. I don’t follow it closely, but it seems every time I try to tune into a program these days the pledge drive is on and they’re very short of goals. I imagine that, plus rumblings of defunding from the Trump administration, goes a long way to account for this single honest piece of investigative journalism. They’ll be holding it up for years as proof that they are not biased not realizing that having one exception proves the rule.
The contrast is stark.
Guns go off in American schools? That’s odd. Three years ago I wrapped my AR-15 in a Confederate flag, put it in my closet, and trained a CCTV camera on it. And so far neither the gun nor the flag have killed anyone… in fact they haven’t even left the closet yet.
But obviously, if I put them in a school closet…
Depends on the school. One of our local school districts noticed they were 45 minutes from the nearest police department (we are WY out in the wilderness), so they bought some AR-15s, put them in safes accessible to staff, and trained the teachers (many of whom likely have an AR-15 at home).
What’s the problem, they were only 20,000%? I supports what they believe, facts are unimportant.