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oddball
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Who would have thought NPR.

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"How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school?

We should know. But we don't.

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.

In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn't confirm one. In at least four cases, we found, something did happen, but it didn't meet the government's parameters for a shooting. About a quarter of schools didn't respond to our inquiries."



Liars, liars, pants on fire.

https://www.npr.org/sections/e...hootings-that-werent


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And how many "school shootings" were events that happened at or near a school but were unrelated to it in any way? In most cases when school wasn't even in session. Rumors of school shootings are greatly exaggerated.


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Good on NPR for reporting accurate data and debunking the false data.



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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."

Out of how many schools? 1,000s? 10,000s?


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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."

Out of how many schools? 1,000s? 10,000s?


I heard that on the radio this morning.
I believe they said that it was something like 94,000 schools.
 
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Wow. NPR reporting something that doesn't further the Prog Cause.

I am shocked!


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Wow. NPR reporting something that doesn't further the Prog Cause.

I am shocked!


Maybe they see who’s the boss in the WH, and they’re running scared.


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Originally posted by Puckpilot78:
And how many "school shootings" were events that happened at or near a school but were unrelated to it in any way? In most cases when school wasn't even in session. Rumors of school shootings are greatly exaggerated.


Yeah, a pair of 25 yr old gang bangers shoot at each other in front of a school. At 3am. On a Sunday. In mid July.

And msm/brady bunch count it as a "School Shooting.". .


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Originally posted by 229DAK:
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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."

Out of how many schools? 1,000s? 10,000s?

And of those 240 schools, how many of them are gang related or related to the ethic make-up of the neighborhood or students...


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Wow. NPR reporting something that doesn't further the Prog Cause.

I am shocked!


Well, Trump is the president now, so maybe they would like to keep govt funding?


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Originally posted by Puckpilot78:
And how many "school shootings" were events that happened at or near a school but were unrelated to it in any way? In most cases when school wasn't even in session. Rumors of school shootings are greatly exaggerated.


Yeah, a pair of 25 yr old gang bangers shoot at each other in front of a school. At 3am. On a Sunday. In mid July.

And msm/brady bunch count it as a "School Shooting.". .


^^^^ This is essentially the exaggeration. If a report of gunfire or the investigation of one or activity with a weapon crosses school property, any time of day or year, it is getting folded into the numbers.


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