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I'm skeptical...
"In an effort to be more consistent, and to more closely align our statistics with our reporting, teams within NBC News collaborated, studied existing school shooting databases and sources, and created a criteria for school shooting counts for use across the company's newsrooms."
I'm skeptical that any member of the mainstream media is actually attempting to be objective. Especially given their history of distorting and twisting facts to make conservatives and their values appear to be negative, ignorant, evil, and stupid.What part are you skeptical about? They detail their criteria and you can easily verify their numbers based on those criteria.
They will screw it up or get paid off to change it.
I'm skeptical that any member of the mainstream media is actually attempting to be objective. Especially given their history of distorting and twisting facts to make conservatives and their values appear to be negative, ignorant, evil, and stupid. ...
The NBC News school shooting tracker includes shootings that meet these criteria:
And while every case of school gun violence is serious and can cause trauma and suffering for the children and adults who experience it, in order to capture the subset of gun violence described in the Safe School Initiative report our count excludes the following cases:
- One or more active shooters. The FBI defines an active shooter as an individual engaged in attempting to kill people in a confined space or populated area.
- On school property during school hours and as students are arriving or leaving, or at school-sanctioned or school-sponsored events. "Schools" are defined as ranging from nursery schools to colleges, universities, and technical schools.
- There is intent to harm students or faculty with a gun.
- At least one person, other than the shooter, is injured or dies.
- Accidental discharge of a weapon at school
- Suicide by firearm at school
- Isolated fights, altercations, or domestic disputes, including gang violence