{"id":42567,"date":"2014-06-13T13:35:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/because-not-all-shooting-at-a-school-is-a-school-shooting-i-guess.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:21:40","slug":"because-not-all-shooting-at-a-school-is-a-school-shooting-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/because-not-all-shooting-at-a-school-is-a-school-shooting-i-guess.html","title":{"rendered":"Because not all shooting at a school is a school shooting, I guess"},"content":{"rendered":"
CNN had decided only to count people who bring firearms onto campus intending to shoot a bunch of people as "school shootings," not cases of accidental shootings, gun suicides, arguments that escalate into someone drawing a gun and shooting, gang activity, or other firearms-related incidents at schools.<\/p>\n

That should make the NRA much happier, since it drops the number since the December 2012 Newtown shootings from 74 to "just" 15. \u00a0Parents can certainly sleep tighter, knowing that.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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CNN Decides Not To Count 80 Percent Of School Shootings<\/a>
\n CNN joins the right wing media in calling into question what “counts” as a school shooting.\n <\/p>\n

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CNN had decided only to count people who bring firearms onto campus intending to shoot a bunch of people as "school shootings," not cases of accidental shootings, gun suicides, arguments that escalate into someone drawing a gun and shooting, gang activity, or other firearms-related incidents at schools. 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