Quote:Personally, I don't care if teachers or school staff carries weapons so long as they meet the qualifications for their State's police departments, but that's a conversation for another day. The chart that has been recirculated lately (with the pins on the map) uses incidents involving guns and labels them "school shootings" while talking specifically about Sandy Hook. It misrepresents the statistic.


When you talk about "school shootings", do you think about the kid that shot himself in his car at the back of the parking lot? The kid that brought a stolen gun to school and shot her own leg? The kids that were shooting wildly at a bunch of trees? I think it's disingenuous.

When I talk about school shootings, I'm talking about any individual carelessly firing a firearm on school grounds. Whether that shot came from a reckless kid behind the tree during recess showing off to his friends or a gang shooting on school grounds. If it happened on school grounds and If it puts the kids in harms way, its a school shooting and a very serious matter.

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