2018 has been deadlier for schoolchildren than service members

[applegrove]

By Philip Bump at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/18/2018-has-been-deadlier-for-schoolchildren-than-service-members/?utm_term=.746670f9329c

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The school shooting near Houston on Friday bolstered a stunning statistic: More people have been killed at schools this year than have been killed while serving in the military.

Initial estimates put the number killed at Santa Fe High School at eight. (The death toll has since risen to 10.) We can compare that to figures for the military compiled from Defense Department news releases, including both combat and noncombat deaths. Even excluding non-students who died in school shootings (for example, teachers) the total still exceeds military casualties.


A large part of that is the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14.

This is not usually the case. In 2017, the number of fatalities among service members was far higher than the number of people killed in school shootings, according to The Washington Post data.


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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Yeah but don't you know this isn't really a statistic

that means what it says.

Well, it does, actually. But it is a statistic that makes something sound bad that as a gun HUMPER I dont want to sound bad, so please stop telling the truth, it makes me and mine look bad! sarcasm

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Too many people care more about hugging their guns than

hugging their children.

[lpbk2713]

3. Teachers and students should get hazardous duty pay.