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[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 211 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just a small one, as a treat.

[–] Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fuck, I laughed too hard at this.

[–] vrutkovs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Cold turkey would not work anyway

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 70 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was just for the statistics ,nothing personal

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

The streak is sacrosanct.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 66 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This makes me wonder, when was the last day that the US actually experienced 0 school shootings?

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 74 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

It's already been 2 days since the last mass shooting, and the number of school shootings per year never exceed the number of days in a year, so it's safe to say we still have gaps, but especially in recent years, the numbers are... not looking good.

As in: just 15 days out of all of 2023 would have had no school shootings, if there was only 1 per day.

[–] bromos@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do kids go to school every day of the year? I thought they where free on weekends and hollidays.

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 28 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I acknowledge your point but in fairness the question was when was the last day we experienced no school shootings

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 40 points 3 months ago

So, technically last Sunday, probably.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago

It also means if we take out the weekends and holidays from the equation that there were more school shootings than school days in that year.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then you need to consider unreported school shootings.

If somebody goes on a Sunday and starts shooting, will they know if the bullet holes are new or from the last shooting?

[–] msage@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

My sides, that hurts in more ways than one.

[–] bromos@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Kinda depressing to think it doesn't stop during the weekends. Fairnff that that was the question tho.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Damn, that's insane. I live in the UK, so my exposure to this stuff is mostly either a regular throughline of offhanded jokes about Americans and their guns, and occasionally the news becoming dominated by an especially bad shooting. We're quite separated from the constant reality of it, because so much of it does just fade into the background, to be highlighted only as statistics

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All the students at my local high school staged a coordinated walk out without any adult intervention to march and protest the gun violence on campus. Hundreds of kids. It didn’t even make the news.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

Props to them. I'm always heartened to see how much more politically engaged the younger generation is compared to mine.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

and the number of school shootings per year never exceed the number of days in a year

Well, it wouldn't be as noteable if the school shooting happened when kids are not at school. If we go by the oen that seems most common, there's 180 school days in the US (because no other countries need these kinds of staticstics),2025 is even on track for missing 1 a day, since it's on 159, and we're almost at the christmas break.

But it is close, and other years after 2021 have been 250+ which is more than 1 per school day, according to your source.

Not sure why the school shootings increased drastically after 2021. 🤷

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

what the actual fuck

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Last Sunday, 'cause no school?

[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

Sunday School?

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Also, from what I've read so far there wasn't one on the 1st, so it seems odd they'd specifically single out the 2nd

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably some time during the Clinton administration, if not even longer ago.

[–] Bimfred@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What about the Covid period? Kinda hard to have a school shooting when kids aren't going to school, I'd imagine.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The zoom shootings were just sort of embarrassing for everyone involved, so they stopped doing them.

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Imagine one guy in Zoom going "POP POP POP POP POP" in front of his computer and the other kids switching off their cameras one by one as they are "hit".

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Don't make it a game pls. Like I know we are desensitized because it happens often but making it grandiose only adds to the confusion. There should be 0 zoom shootings like there should be 0 school shootings in an academic year

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Kinda hard to have a school shooting when kids aren't going to school

~~Life~~ Death finds a way

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 60 points 3 months ago
[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

News channels should have a ticker for school shootings like days accident free

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The 0 would cause burn-in in oled screens

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

well it would scroll like the rest of the tickers

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Propaganda here boys......no way cops would enter a school under attack as shown in photo.

They just tape it off and hang out normally.

[–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

no no, you've got it all wrong. The school day is almost over and no shooting has occurred yet, so they are here to correct that.

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ah, they are present to shoot the black kids in self defense?

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well Ted Crus said the reason is there are too many doors.

Seriously, he actually fucking said that.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I believe in reasonable background checks and waiting periods to purchase and install doors. Anyone with a improperly installed door should be held criminally liable.

[–] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Close, but that's only one part of the problem. You're forgetting that anybody can just open a door. The government should set an age limit, create an aptitude test and start issuing dooring licenses.