The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for November 09, 2013
November 08, 2013
November 10, 2013
Transcript:
Hurricane Hattie O'Hara: I don't think Ms. Crabtree likes me. Wilberforce: Why do you say that? Hurricane Hattie O'Hara: I asked for permission to go to the lavatory during class today... Hurricane Hattie O'Hara: When I came back to the classroom, the door was locked!
In the nine years since this strip went out, there have been 281 school shootings in the USA, about one every 12 days.
In 30 of those shootings, nobody was killed or injured. 11% nobody hurt, 89% somebody hurt. So when a gun is fired on or near school grounds, there is a 1 in nine chance that nobody will get hurt. Or, put another way, it is nine times more likely someone will get hurt than nobody will get hurt when a gun is fired in or near a school.
In 174 of those shootings, nobody was killed. In 107 somebody was killed. That’s a shooting in a school in the USA where someone was killed, on average, every 31 days. So one a calendar month on average.
38% of school shooting incidents result in at least one person dying.
463 people were injured in those shootings. Equivalent to a wounding every 7 days. One a week.
200 people were killed in those shootings. Sometimes only 1, another time 22 people. Equivalent to one person killed in a USA school every 16 days. About one a fortnight.
Locking the doors does not seem to be helping.