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Will school shootings in 2023 outpace last year’s record high?

April 4, 2023

Via: K-12 Dive
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If trends from the past five decades continue for the remainder of the year, there would be about 400 shootings in 2023, outpacing last year’s record high of 273.

Based on 53 years of data, a predictive model estimates “approximately 400 shootings this year, which follows the observed trend of increased gun violence at schools since 2018,” said David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database, which is updated daily.

Though Riedman’s data collection dates back to 1970, he acknowledges it is still a relatively small dataset for applying predictive statistics.

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