[ceejayoz]

> Additionally, some of the 112 that did have a victim didn't even happen on campus. See this linked incident.

Did you look at your link?

> Student shot in leg during dispute in parking lot as school was dismissing

That's a school shooting. The parking lot is absolutely part of the campus.

[mattw2121]

Yes I have. An altercation between two people in a parking lot is different than a school shooting.

Have you looked at the other items listed where there are victims? Multiple times I see that it was an altercation in a dorm room of a college. Sorry, I would consider that an altercation in a residence, not a school shooting. Here's another one that a kid shot himself in the leg and it's counted as a school shooting.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3092594

These stats from GVA are inflated with respect to school shootings.

[simoncion]

> That's a school shooting.

Ah. I now understand why school shooting numbers that people are quoting are so very high as of late.

Shit like Columbine is a school shooting. Shit like that is a shooting that happened to happen at school. If the assailant had used a knife, would you be calling it a "school stabbing"? If you would, then I disagree with that characterization, too.

For lots of folks, the term "school shooting" is strongly associated with the notion that a massacre happened... and not at all with the notion that some folks got into a heated argument, and one of them decided to attack the other with a weapon.

[ceejayoz]

Not every school shooting is a mass shooting, no.

[simoncion]

Based on this: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552320> many things classified as "school shooting" are not what any reasonable person would think of when they hear the term.

A kid shooting HIMSELF in the leg? Yes, it meets an extremely literal definition, but it would be incredibly stupid to -say- lock down a campus because of that.