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.
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.