According to the FBI, here are the number of children in elementary and high schools who are killed each year in active shooter incidents:
Since 2000, an average of five children have been killed each year. The trendline since 2005 has gone up from five per year to seven per year.
Uvalde happened in 2022, and if you plot a trendline from 2012 to 2022, that number is going to look quite a bit different.
From the link-
"Active shooter” is a law enforcement term describing a shooting in progress. The FBI defines an active shooter as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” Because the situation is active, law enforcement and citizens involved in the incident have the potential to affect the outcome. This definition is narrower than the definition of “school shootings” used by the SSSC; for instance, gang violence, drug violence, and accidental weapons discharges are not included.
Using the broader category of school shootings changes the picture quite a bit.
While 'active shooter' incidents generate much more active press coverage in real time, most people probably dont draw much distinction after the fact between the different ways that school shootings might be classified.
This chart seemed important:
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/a01/violent-deaths-and-shootings#2
Deaths are a measure, but just as important is the terror it instills in students and parents. I know my kid was freaked out when they were in high school from the prevalence of these, even if the odds it would happen to her particular school in her particular classroom were infinitesimal. But the fear was real.
Agree 100%. My sons have had "Active Shooter" drills since kindergarten. My workplace has active shooter training.
We treat mass shooting as something as natural as an earthquake in the US. Something is terribly wrong here.
Thousands of kids are killed by guns every year, but only a small fraction of those are in school shootings. I haven't found a breakdown as to where they occurred, but it seems likely that schools are safer places than the combined home and neighborhood. The first thing to do to reduce the risk of children dying by gun is to remove the guns from the home.
And again, mass killings in any place are only a small fraction of gun deaths, and killings with assault weapons are a fraction of mass killings. Reducing gun deaths requires control of all guns, especially hand guns.
I would have guessed it was more like 50-100/year.
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