"Every year" is a huge understatement
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2026
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More like every month or sometimes more
What? That's still a huge understatement. Link. More like two of three days at least and almost every day in 2024, 2023 and 2022.
What's wrong with America?
It'd be FAR faster & easier to list what's not wrong.
It’s almost like the entire country is built on an ancient Native American burial ground. >_>
I just wish we'd go towards the light, already. Craig & Jobeth are still around, so maybe they can help.
Ouche
Im not sure what the stat is now, but I remember a couple of years back it was an average of 24 a year in the US? Saying "school shootings every year" makes it feel like a bit of an understatement
Oh it is much worse.
https://k12ssdb.org/all-shootings
Granted this has a broad description for "school shootings".
Although 2025 had improved. In 2023 it averaged out to just under 1 shooting a day.
yeah but is that counting or not counting gang violence? /s
*gets shot anyway*
School doesn't operate 352 days per year, so it was greater than a daily occurrence.
Would be great if they turned their anger on the people who keep the education system from evolving instead of the other victims
there were 26 school shootings in 2001. and 337in 2025.
so it went from once every few weeks to almost once a day! was never once a year ...
Every week pretty much
Guns are ingrained into their culture. Add a lack of good education and social services onto that and this is what you get.
not sure why you're sitting in the negative it's literally true. sociologists call it "the cult of the gun." it goes beyond just "the problem is the guns" and into "the problem is the relationship with the guns." we're one of only two nations on earth where upper middle class families commonly take photos of themselves with guns for holidays, and the other one is israel. we have it ingrained in us that gun is more than just a tool or a weapon, but instead a monument to our identities, frequently with that identity being tied to masculinity.
then you have to dig into the motivations behind most school shootings. the profile of most school shooters is incredibly consistent. they're usually older boys or young men with an interest in manosphere identity politics. we usually just say "incel" but it's bigger than that. incels are just one subculture within the manosphere, and the school shooters are coming from all across the manosphere.
additionally we don't talk about school shootings as what they are. i have survived two school shootings. it wasn't until 13 years after the second experience that someone explained to me that these are terrorist attacks. they are terrorist attacks because the motivations of the shooters are usually to influence politics more towards something that they want. people with an education in how our society is structured are going to be more likely to take their frustrations and dedicate their energy to organizing.
this is not what happens with school shooters though. the reason for this is is that when they get cut off from one last tether to their perceived sense of masculinity, they go to reclaim their masculinity in the way that's been taught to them rs what it means to be a man: through omnidirectional violence. the goal of their terrorism is to make others see them and to make sure that the targets of their hate, usually women, particularly queer and minority women, live their day to day lives with more fear of men.
hold on let me go find a link to a video for people…
Wow! Covid really did a number on kids...
every ~~year~~ week
Shooting up a school is literally the most pathetic way to go. Like, I can understand going after a dictator or the mafia but why kill children?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3VzGdo1IDdc
top level summary: manosphere edgelords are fucking losers. when they feel emasculated they target their violence at who they hate (usually women, school teachers are often women), who they're jealous of (in the case of school children, school children are often representative of the last time the terrorist felt whole, when they felt safe from the world, and before the pressure to perform masculinity became overwhelming during puberty. additionally children are representative of a community's hope for a future, and shooters are often completely doomeristic in their worldview), and who they feel does not present a threat of fighting back, or "soft targets" as they're sometimes called (school shooters are very consistently trying to crack a high score. they make references to prior shooters and keep track of a leaderboard in their diaries and notes)