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[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 201 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Just a small one, as a treat.

[–] Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Fuck, I laughed too hard at this.

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

Cold turkey would not work anyway

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 65 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It was just for the statistics ,nothing personal

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

The streak is sacrosanct.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 64 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 73 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 41 points 3 weeks 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 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 weeks 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 22 points 3 weeks 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 weeks ago

My sides, that hurts in more ways than one.

[–] bromos@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 6 points 3 weeks 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 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

what the actual fuck

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Last Sunday, 'cause no school?

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

Sunday School?

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks 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 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bimfred@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

~~Life~~ Death finds a way

[–] Devial@discuss.online 63 points 3 weeks ago

Literally entire rest of developed world: a school shooting happening is national breaking news

USA: No school shooting happening for 24hours is national breaking news

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 55 points 3 weeks ago
[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

The 0 would cause burn-in in oled screens

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

well it would scroll like the rest of the tickers

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 15 points 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

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

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.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Clearly the teachers and students should all be armed with doors.