Right, in most people's minds a "mass shooting" or a "school shooting" means a targeted terrorist-style attack, not an interpersonal or gang dispute that escalated into gunfire and had multiple injuries. Pretty much all counts of mass/school shootings in the US are inflated in this way, possibly to make it sound worse for political purposes.

Yeah, I watched the story ran about it last night, and I was honestly astonished at the validity of assertions which were made, maybe it's my youth but I cannot imagine this explicit choice of misnomers and mischaracterizations to capture peoples eyeballs would've flown a couple decades ago.

Couldn’t yesterday’s event be finagled as workplace violence?

Maybe. Schools are workplaces. The suspect was 18, according to CNN (first link on Google) so I think it was a student. Anyway, it could be (probably is) both. They’re not mutually exclusive categories.

Thanks for your comment. I avoided linking to news stories partially to avoid that glorification.

As for Texas, this tracks school shootings, not mass shootings. A teacher was shot and injured, students barricaded doors, and it was on a school campus. I think that qualifies—- I would be terrified if that happened to me, wouldn’t you?

That is true, good on you.

Well the violence did occur in a school, and the rest of the school reacted the way they were trained to when they hear gunshots. However I think that to share the same category as other events where students show up distinctly with the purpose of indiscriminate violence and bloodshed, is a bit of a stretch. We are simply disagreeing over Diction, therefore we are both correct :D

Also yes I would be beyond terrified I believe, however I'm not sure that relates to your assertion.

I admit it's only sort of related. It's about how schools aren't safe (and don't feel safe) for students.

Anyway, this is "a shooting at a school" so I think by definition that makes it a school shooting, no?

What way would you suggest to change the school shooting issue without highlighting it? This actually could be the best way of doing that: Highlighting the shooting itself but not the terrorist responsible.

I agree that showing the shootings as anonymous events is superior to highlighting the shooters. I also think that this site is an even better version of that, showing how non-unique it makes a person when they commit an act like this. However I just personally believe in nurture over nature. I think that not reporting on anything like that at all will take away as I see it the largest motivation for any act of indiscriminate violence, which in my mind is notoriety of some sort. Then again maybe some see it as a way of killing themselves where there's no chance of turning back, similar to a suicidal person driving into oncoming traffic...their decision may just solely be about them, in which case why would it need to be on the national news in the first place?