There's no uniform definition, but groups with an agenda will count any discharge of a firearm on property owned by a school as a school shooting regardless of circumstances.
One notorious case was a person who committed suicide in the parking lot of a closed down school. It happened in the middle of the night and classes hadn't been held in that building for years. Advocacy groups still counted it.
NPR did a whole investigation into over reporting in 2018. Here's a link:
I heard on NPR that a lot of the key ships and equipment the army used were almost decommissioned in 2019. The last time they were used was in Haiti in 2010.
Hopefully this convinces army brass to make the investment to maintain this capability.
Unless you live a subsistence lifestyle and somehow also produce all of the complex goods you need, you care.
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would more or less kick off world war three. To say that's bad for everyday life is an understatement, and that's assuming nobody launches nukes.
So the "white gamer bros in Dallas, Texas" had no overlap with 4 chan users who realized they were in front of cameras and could do some trolling IRL?
I had heard that "white gamer bros" were few and far between on 4 chan, and certainly weren't the sort to start or support any of the trolling the site was notorious for. /S
That's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. They only use it because CNN and the ADL wouldn't backtrack, thus giving their claims validity after the fact.
We, the public, can stop that bullshit in it's tracks by rejecting the whole premise and insisting on the actual, innocent meaning of the gesture.
4 chan started a prank saying that the ok sign was actually spelling out "WP" meaning "white power".
The ADL and a bunch of news agencies bought it hook, line, and sinker. Pretty quickly scuba divers, anyone who has been a teenage boy in the past few decades, and really just anyone with a pulse and a brain cell pointed out how ridiculous it would be to believe that.
Some of the groups that got tricked (the ADL most notably) doubled down instead of admitting that they got got. They found like one fringe neo-nazi group that started doing it (probably after seeing it on 4 chan) and insisted "SeE? RaCiSt Dog whistle!".
There's nothing wrong with the "OK" sign. It's perfectly innocent.
Our choices are three old dudes. Two are senile and one is brain damaged.
The bar's low but so are the standards this time around.