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There you go. That's better. Except the total is 36 officers so far this year:Okay, fine.
At the halfway point of this year: >40 kids killed in school shootings, 31 officers killed "during an incident with a firearm." That's more dead kids than dead officers (40>31).
Next deflection, please.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/19/officers-killed-in-line-duty-in-2018.html
It's 44 for school kids, except that the press collects figures like suicides,18-year-old men shot at the edge of the baseball field (not a student) as at Canyon Springs, and counts the killed shooters-- when they are students-- as among the dead:
https://www.the74million.org/1-stud...-injured-by-guns-at-schools-so-far-this-year/
Control for that, and I bet the cops have suffered more fatalities in 2018. Meanwhile:
Which means more cops were murdered in 2017-- 44-- than schoolkids. That's how statistics tend to work when you're working with these kinds of numbers. Every one of those deaths is a tragedy.In all of 2017, there were 44 shootings in elementary and secondary schools, resulting in 25 deaths and 60 injuries.
So far in 2018, there have been 28 elementary and secondary school shootings, resulting in 40 deaths and 66 injuries. With the year not even halfway over, 2018 already has more injuries and deaths than all of 2017 and appears to be on track to outpace 2017 in terms of overall incidents.
Deflection? You're the one running with a strawman. This was never my argument. These numbers are a fraction of the problem. How many people were killed by Americans with a criminal record including a history of altercations involving violence and/or guns?