Noah Shusterman: School shootings are not rare; they occur on a depressingly frequent basis. They account for relatively few of the US's 40k annual gin deaths but that doesn't make them rare.

No, this doesn’t make it less scary for them. It just makes them fear that they could be killed at any moment bc infantile people need their big big guns to feel tough. This is literally applying bandaids to a (policy) gunshot wound. (Also, not sure you can really patch up an AR15 wound.)

“Chances are, you’re never ever going to have to use this. If you do, it’s gonna be scary,” trauma nurse Kate Carleton told the 8- and 9-year-olds. “But because we’ve taught you what to do, it makes it a little less scary.”

Born from the tragedy of gun violence, this program teaches children how to stop a wound from bleeding out | CNNwww.cnn.com “Stop the Bleed” turns bystanders — even young children — into immediate responders by teaching them to pack a wound and use a tourniquet.

School shootings are very rare. But they’re so traumatic when they happen. So we’ve decide the solution is to impose consistent, regular low-level traumatic reminders on millions of children that we’ve resigned ourselves to the chance they could be gunned down bc we don’t care enough to prevent it.

School shootings are not rare; they occur on a depressingly frequent basis. They account for relatively few of the US's 40k annual gin deaths but that doesn't make them rare.

There are ~110,000 K-12 schools in the US. There were 46 school shootings in 2022 (which was a peak). That translates to 0.04% of all schools experiencing a shooting. As an upper edge. Far too high, but still rare. Much smaller than # of schools w lockdown drills.

“In the United States, a rare disease is defined as a condition that affects fewer than 200,000 people, or 1 in 1650 people given a current population size of 330 million.” School shootings are right on the cusp of NOT being classified as a rare health hazard.

According to the WaPo, since 1999 a total of ~200 children AND adults have been killed in school shootings, ~450 injured. Not per year, but total. So still vanishingly rare (the “exposed” number is total number in schools, and is a 25-yr total).

There have been 404 school shootings since Columbinewww.washingtonpost.com The Washington Post for years has tracked the number of students affected by school shootings. Since 1999, over 300,000 children have experienced gun violence during school hours.

Pretty gross of you to think only maimed victims are directly affected by school shootings. Minimizing the harms associated with school and other mass shootings is partially how America is stuck with our uniquely passive culture towards gun violence.

I mean... the knowledge of school shootings is traumatic in its own ways, and, beyond students who are physically unharmed when their own school is shot up, I'm guessing that students at neighboring schools also feel that. But just... I find these numbers insanely high. 404 school shootings?

None of this is me arguing in favor of those "regular low-level traumatic reminders," btw. Or in favor of making every school a "hard target."