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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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I guess we just disagree here. I believe that most people interpret "school shootings", while using Sandy Hook as the starting point, as someone deliberately using a firearm for the purpose of harming or killing another student when many of them aren't. 

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we don't have a problem here. I only feel that there should be an clarification on the descriptions of these incidents; people wont have all of the facts when coming to their conclusions. I believe you're the exception here. Sandy Hook was an active-shooter scenario where someone was deliberately shooting with the intention of killing. I can't see the correlation when the chart uses a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the same category of Sandy Hook, but I suppose we'll just agree to disagree.

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