It’s literally impossible to know exactly how many, but it’s statistically possible to compare data from before this measure was taken to after the measure. A serious argument could be made and it’s probably already done. Also, the other point made is as important as this, since many other consequences come with armed police officers in schools. Considering the prevalence of non-white people in the imprisoned population, and the well-known bias of police officers in the USA against non-white people, well…
I’m not making a point on that. I’m just saying that you can argue with numbers and not only with statements that can just be denied with statements saying otherwise. As a foreigner to the USA, I don’t even care about that specific discussion. Before and after Columbine there were way too many school shootings in the USA, anyway. Their numbers on this have always been stupidly high.
Definitely, raw data never tells the full story. Just pointing out in this specific case, Columbine was certainly an inflection point, and the presence/absence of school security seems hard to use as a metric for before/after.
It’s literally impossible to know exactly how many, but it’s statistically possible to compare data from before this measure was taken to after the measure. A serious argument could be made and it’s probably already done. Also, the other point made is as important as this, since many other consequences come with armed police officers in schools. Considering the prevalence of non-white people in the imprisoned population, and the well-known bias of police officers in the USA against non-white people, well…
In this case, not really. How many school shootings were there before Columbine…?
I’m not making a point on that. I’m just saying that you can argue with numbers and not only with statements that can just be denied with statements saying otherwise. As a foreigner to the USA, I don’t even care about that specific discussion. Before and after Columbine there were way too many school shootings in the USA, anyway. Their numbers on this have always been stupidly high.
Definitely, raw data never tells the full story. Just pointing out in this specific case, Columbine was certainly an inflection point, and the presence/absence of school security seems hard to use as a metric for before/after.
Quite a few, school shootings date back to at least July 26, 1764. Yes, 1764, not 1964. Greencastle, Penn
There were roughly 14 major ones, but stats weren’t really kept as well as they are now.
Now, there’s 14 a week 💀
I imagine there’s a hell of a lot more armed school security guards today, so if anything, they’re not a catch-all deterrent.
My point was that Columbine was the first event that got mass media attention, and things have gotten progressively worse since.