School shootings—terrifying to students, educators, parents, and communities—always reignite polarizing debates about gun rights and school safety. To bring context to these debates, Education Week journalists began tracking shootings on K-12 school property that resulted in firearm-related injuries or deaths.

In 2022, we continue this heartbreaking, but important work. More information about this tracker and our methodology is below.

There have been 27 school shootings this year.

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Injuries & Deaths

27 School shootings with injuries or deaths
83 People killed or injured in a school shooting
27 People killed
24 Students or other children killed
3 School employees or other adults killed
56 People injured

Hermit wrote:"We'll make sure that when a kid is in the womb, they’re as safe as they are in a classroom..."

Yes, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a former White House press secretary during Trump's presidency and current Republican candidate for the gubernatorial election in Arkansas really did say that.

Republican governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota, mentioned as a potential running mate to Donald Trump in 2024, told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that she found it to be “incredible” that “nobody’s talking about the pervert, horrible and deranged individual that raped a 10-year-old”.

Abortions are now criminal acts in South Dakota “unless there is appropriate and reasonable medical judgment that performance of an abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant female”. Cases of incest and rape are not an exception under South Dakota’s law as it stands.

On Friday, the state also banned medical abortion by telemedicine and increased the penalty for the unlicensed practice of medicine when performing abortions.

Dana Bash, CNN’S State of the Union host, pressed Noem on whether it was right for a 10-year-old rape victim who was pregnant to have to cross state lines for a legal abortion.

Seeming to try to deflect, Noem said the rape of children is “an issue that the supreme court has weighed … as well”, adding that the public should also be “addressing those sick individuals [who] do this to our children”.

Asked if she would seek to have the law changed if a similar case occurred in her state, Noem replied: “I don’t believe a tragic situation should be perpetuated by another tragedy. There’s more that we have got to do to make sure that we really are living a life that says every life is precious, especially innocent lives that have been shattered, like that 10-year-old girl.”

Asked if the girl should have to have the baby, Noem responded that “every single life – every single life is precious. This tragedy is horrific. But, in South Dakota, the law today is that the abortions are illegal, except to save the life of the mother.”

But asked if allowing an abortion to be be performed on a 10-year-old would be considered as protecting the life of the mother, Noem did not rule out that interpretation.

“Yes, that situation, the doctor, the family, the individuals closest to that will make the decisions there for that family,” she said, returning to the issue that for many Republicans is the central focus of the abortion debate.

The_Piper wrote:The NRA convention 3 days later had speakers saying "The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." When there were good guys with guns and shields inside the school when it happened and the door to the classrooms was unlocked, they could have gone in and stopped it. I can't remember which speakersw said that. I think Ted Cruz and maybe Greg Abbott, but I could be wrong on both.

The_Piper wrote:They're not stupid, they just act stupid to appeal to a large chunk of their voters.

Greg the Grouper wrote:Seems the Secret Service has misplaced all their texts related to January 6th.

Spearthrower wrote:

Greg the Grouper wrote:Seems the Secret Service has misplaced all their texts related to January 6th.

They might be able to find help from a government agency that actually specializes in part in retrieving deleted data from mobile devices. I believe it's called 'United States Secret Service'!

The_Piper wrote:The J6 committee hearing was really informative.

The_Piper wrote: Here's some comic relief, a psychopath running away from the crowd he helped stir up.

Spearthrower wrote:

The_Piper wrote:The J6 committee hearing was really informative.

I'm surprised no thread was made about it here. It's very much like the kind of national truth and reconciliation process countries with ex-tyrants underwent.

The_Piper wrote: Here's some comic relief, a psychopath running away from the crowd he helped stir up.

Running past security officers who don't have the option to flee the rioters he incited.

Seabass wrote:https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1551208457092603905