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    Meme Inflates School Shooting Deaths

    by Saranac Hale Spencer May 14, 2019 2 minutes
    Quick Take

    A meme circulating online claims that 7,182 students have been “killed in U.S. schools” since 2012, but that number is inflated. It likely refers to all firearm fatalities involving children, including suicides and shootings off campus.

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    Dozens of students have been shot and killed on school grounds since the at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec. 14, 2012. We counted 64 through

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