Toronto police say they’re looking for multiple suspects who allegedly shot at an elementary school in North York early Saturday morning.

“We’re not going to ignore the obvious, you know, what occurred here and what the target of the shooting was,” he said. “But at the same time, it will be wrong to just guess at this point.”

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    6 months ago

    Its a fairly standard school shooting. Most school shootings dont have a victim, just like this one.

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        6 months ago

        The school doesnt have to be open or have any students on campus to be consideeed a school shooting.

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          I would wager that if you told most people there was a school shooting and if they asked you how many children died and you said, “none, the school was empty at the time,” they’d say you were being a dick by making them upset because they thought someone had killed a bunch of kids.

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            6 months ago

            Well yes, but thats how they count school shootings, or at least in the US. You have to realize that most people counting school shootings are incentivized to inflate the numbers as much as possible. The number of students actually shot in school shootings is a magnitude lower than the number of school shootings.

            Imo, number of students shot in school shootings is a much better metric than just school shootings by itself.

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              Can you tell me how many school shootings there have been in the US while schools were closed?

              Im guessing the number is very low if not 0.

              Not casualties is not the same as shooting at an empty building

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                Its not zero, I can tell you that much. And the definition used by federal government includes closed schools, also buses and any other school property regardless of status. Someone brandishes a gun at the school bus depot, thats a school shooting.

                “a gun is brandished, is fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims (including zero), time, day of the week, or reason.”

                https://www.chds.us/sssc/methods/

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                    6 months ago

                    Its only the gun grabbers spending resources to track school shootings. Nobody is telling you how many have zero causalities because no one is spending the resources to find out.