K–12 Shooting Stats | Gun Facts

"TAKEAWAYS
1. The most commonly media-cited K–12 school shooting database is overstated by 40%.
2. Most K–12 shootings are over disputes that align with inner-city and street gang subcultures.
3. School-targeted shootings (which include mass shootings) occur at about half the rate of “nominal” dispute/gang shootings.
4. Targeted shootings, because they are planned, come from generalized grievances, and use “cattle pen scenarios,” have a higher body count than the more common one-victim dispute shootings, though the latter occurs twice as often."

Dispute resolution makes up the majority of the shootings, either gang related, or cliquish bullying. It happens at schools because it's easy to find and identify targets, and the shooter is going to know how to get to the victim and avoid supervision.
Go ahead and read the whole thing to see how GunFacts.info reaches their conclusions. there are footnotes to cited studies within the text.
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