{"id":1496244,"date":"2022-05-29T08:31:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T12:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496244"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:31:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T12:31:30","slug":"definition-of-school-shooting-recently-changed-to-make-them-seem-more-frequent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/definition-of-school-shooting-recently-changed-to-make-them-seem-more-frequent\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition of \u201cSchool Shooting\u201d Recently Changed to Make Them Seem More Frequent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdefinition-of-school-shooting-recently-changed-to-make-them-seem-more-frequent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496244&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"header\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"label\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">News Analysis<\/span> <span class=\"published\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">May 28, 2022 12:30 PM<br \/>\n                                EST<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt mb-4\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n                            &#8220;Uvalde was a mass school shooting; the 26 previous tragedies at schools this year were not.&#8221;\n                        <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"content\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"reader-container\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<section class=\"cover\" data-v-1408f321=\"\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"author\" data-v-1408f321=\"\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"show-sm\" data-v-1408f321=\"\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"story-body\" class=\"article\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-content\" data-v-f313b7e6=\"\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"html-content\" data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<article class=\"html\" data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>While it has become widely accepted that <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/aoc-goes-on-instagram-rant-talking-about-radicalized-young-men-following-uvalde-school-shooting\/\">the recent Uvalde school shooting<\/a> was the 27th this year, it&#8217;s not widely known that the definition has changed recently, lowering the threshold for what is defined as a &#8220;school shooting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Interesting. The definition of &#8216;school shooting&#8217; was changed to make them seem common, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/uvalde-police-stood-outside-school-while-parents-urged-them-to-go-inside-during-shooting\/\">when in fact it\u2019s rarer than we realized<\/a>,&#8221; tweeted filmmaker Mike Cernovich on Thursday:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Interesting. The definition of \u201cschool shooting\u201d was changed to make them seem common, when in fact it\u2019s rarer than we realized. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zIuBVAVbKh\">https:\/\/t.co\/zIuBVAVbKh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cernovich\/status\/1529875160315990019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>This article by <em>Reason <\/em>breaks it down: The root of the problem is &#8220;that three very differently defined terms are being used somewhat incautiously and interchangeably: &#8216;school shooting,&#8217; &#8216;mass shooting,&#8217; and &#8216;mass school shooting.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-greg-abbott-responds-to-evil-school-shooting-reveals-that-officer-lost-daughter-in-uvalde\/\">Uvalde was a mass school shooting<\/a>; the 26 previous tragedies at schools this year were not,&#8221; <em>Reason <\/em>continues to report, continuing with the definition that<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/all-victims-of-uvalde-school-shooting-were-in-the-same-classroom\"> at least three people have to be killed (in most cases, four)<\/a> in order for an incident to officially be considered a mass shooting, according to the Gun Violence Archive itself. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Using this metric, there have only been a total 13 mass school shootings since 1966, going back to the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Texas-Tower-shooting-of-1966\">clock tower incident at the University of Austin<\/a> on Aug 1 of that year. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Without minimizing the gravity of any incident of this nature, it&#8217;s worth noting that, once again as <em>Reason <\/em>goes on to report, &#8220;mass casualty events, on the other hand, constitute less than 1 percent of all gun deaths, and that \u00a0&#8220;suicides and non\u2013mass-casualty murders\u2014usually carried out with handguns rather than assault rifles\u2014constitute the overwhelming majority of gun crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"revcontent-slot\" data-v-4da339e1=\"\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<p>Ads by revcontent<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section class=\"contributions-container\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"partial contributions-epic\" data-v-37b8bc14=\"\" data-v-1408f321=\"\">\n<div class=\"inner\" data-v-37b8bc14=\"\">\n<h2 data-v-37b8bc14=\"\">Join and support independent free thinkers!<\/h2>\n<div class=\"words\" data-v-37b8bc14=\"\">\n<p data-v-37b8bc14=\"\">\n                We\u2019re independent and can\u2019t be cancelled. 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