Why no school shooter thread?

Saw stats the other day....school shootings have more than doubled in the past 10 years vs. the couple decades prior.  

Guns aren't exactly more accessible to these people.  I think what's changing is the way everyone loses their shit over every school shooting, it's made it a more infamously appealing thing to do for these kids.

Doesn't seem like the media bothers asking "what can the media do?" to change things.  If they ask that question of themselves at all, it's only with respect to changing attitudes on gun control.  Although I do think most of them are shallow and self-absorbed Ron Burgundy-types who are just voices reading what's on the teleprompter.

posted by queencitybuckeye

Since a good guy with a gun ended the situation, the CNN types will barely acknowledge that it even happened.

Meanwhile, the serial bomber in Austin gets 1/10th the coverage a shooter does.   CNN types losing interest if the guy isn't racially motivated.

posted by gut

Saw stats the other day....school shootings have more than doubled in the past 10 years vs. the couple decades prior.  

Link? This article states that schools are safer from shootings than in the 90s. 

https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/schools-are-still-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says/

Also, good news, the shooter is dead. Story will now die within a week. Ho hum

posted by iclfan2

Link? This article states that schools are safer from shootings than in the 90s. 

https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/schools-are-still-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says/

Also, good news, the shooter is dead. Story will now die within a week. Ho hum

Whether there are more or less may depend on the use of a reasonable definition of what a school shooting is vs. the Everytown or CNN definition.

posted by iclfan2

Link? This article states that schools are safer from shootings than in the 90s. 

https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/schools-are-still-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says/

Also, good news, the shooter is dead. Story will now die within a week. Ho hum

Ehh, saw the data somewhere else.  Should have known better than to trust the source.  

Your link was interesting.

It appears today's shooting in Maryland ended when a good guy with a gun was able to quickly engage the bad guy with a gun.  

Although there is more we do not know yet. 

First five stories on CNN front page about Trump accusers. No mention of school shooting.  

posted by superman

First five stories on CNN front page about Trump accusers. No mention of school shooting.  

Scrolling is hard

posted by superman

First five stories on CNN front page about Trump accusers. No mention of school shooting.  

I noticed earlier they were the last one to put it front and center

posted by bigorangebuck22

Scrolling is hard

 

I don't know.  Right now on the front page of CNN.com is 4 articles related to Trump/Cambridge/Facebook.  3 articles on Trump accusers.  And 3 more articles on Trump and Russia.  2 articles on Ben Carson and furniture.  1 article on the school shooting, and 1 article on the Austin bomber.

Yeah, that's fair and balanced coverage of the relevant stories of the day.

Also, why hasn’t the sheriff from Broward suspended yet?

posted by bigorangebuck22

Scrolling is hard

 

So is nuance and comprehension apparently.

posted by QuakerOats

It appears today's shooting in Maryland ended when a good guy with a gun was able to quickly engage the bad guy with a gun.  

Although there is more we do not know yet. 

 

Yep, and this is the way it should always end....with armed guards taking out idiots. Fairly simple solution.

Do we know yet how the 17 year old in Maryland was able to obtain a Glock? Maryland has pretty tough gun laws, and you can't buy a handgun until you're 21 across the entire US anyway.

posted by justincredible

Do we know yet how the 17 year old in Maryland was able to obtain a Glock? Maryland has pretty tough gun laws, and you can't buy a handgun until you're 21 across the entire US anyway.

It's pretty obvious the NRA gave it to him to kill black people and LBGTIAWTFBBQ people.

posted by justincredible

Do we know yet how the 17 year old in Maryland was able to obtain a Glock? Maryland has pretty tough gun laws, and you can't buy a handgun until you're 21 across the entire US anyway.

Good point.  How far is Maryland from Indiana?  

posted by justincredible

Do we know yet how the 17 year old in Maryland was able to obtain a Glock? Maryland has pretty tough gun laws, and you can't buy a handgun until you're 21 across the entire US anyway.

What if the Austin bomber was an NRA nut trying to make a point about guns?  Imagine what that would be like at CNN....

posted by gut

What if the Austin bomber was an NRA nut trying to make a point about guns?  Imagine what that would be like at CNN....

https://giphy.com/gifs/history-head-exploding-oaPcDncoLfgjK

I'd imagine that somewhere in the CNN corporate offices, there's at least one person afraid that it'll come out that this kid was anti-NRA or that he was a Democrat.

posted by O-Trap

I'd imagine that somewhere in the CNN corporate offices, there's at least one person afraid that it'll come out that this kid was anti-NRA or that he was a Democrat.

Disappointed, maybe.  But afraid?   Nahh, they'll just ignore it and run another Trump bimbo story.