Yesterday, Hayley Miller, a reporter for the Huffington Post, uncritically regurgitated an Everytown claim that there have been 200 school shootings since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that claimed 26 innocent lives.
There have been over 200 school shooting incidents ― an average of nearly one a week ― since the horrifying morning when 20-year-old Adam Lanza marched into Sandy Hook Elementary School and did the unthinkable.
Four years ago today, Lanza shot and killed his mother in her home in Newtown, Connecticut, before making his way to the school and opening fire, leaving 20 children and six staff members dead.
According to data from Everytown for Gun Safety, which tracks gun violence and other shootings on school grounds, there have been at least 94 gun-related deaths and more than 156 people injured as a result of more than 200 school shooting incidents since Sandy Hook.
Everytown’s claim is stunning… and not remotely credible.
Based on past debunkings of Everytown’s faked school shooting report, we decided that it was time to take a hard look at the claimed school shootings, most of which Everytown lists here (PDF) hoping that no one looks too close at the data.
Let’s take a look at those claimed events, shall we?
As gun control groups are always using the term “commonsense,” we’ll use the following definition of school shooting: a school shooting is an on-campus attack with firearms against the faculty, staff, or students that occurs on a school campus during school hours or during school functions. We’ll also include attacks on college students in and near their on-campus dorms.
Unlike Everytown, we’ll make sure to link to all of these events, so you can do further research on your own.
Here we go.
2013
1/7/13 FORT MYERS, FL Apostolic Revival Center Christian School
The incident in question was what authorities believe was a drug deal gone bad, occurred off-campus.
Starting off with a lie is bad, but gives us a pretty good indication that Everytown is far less interested in the truth than they are pushing a narrative.
Fact Check Tally: 0 School Shootings | 1 Everytown Lie
1/10/13 TAFT, CA Taft Union High School
This was a legitimate school shooting. The gunman brought a gun into a school classroom and opened fire on other students. This is our first conventional school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 1 School Shooting | 1 Everytown Lie
1/15/13 HAZARD, KY Hazard Community and Tech
According to Hazard Police Chief Minor Allen, this was a domestic violence incident in a parking lot that “was not related to the school in any way.” Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 1 School Shooting | 2 Everytown Lies
1/15/13 ST. LOUIS, MO Stevens Institute of Business & Arts
This was a shooting of a college administrator in a dispute over financial aid. This was a legitimate school shooting, our second.
Fact Check Tally: 2 School Shootings | 2 Everytown Lies
1/16/13 CHICAGO, IL Chicago State University
The tragic shooting of Tyrone Lawson by a couple of suspected gang members in a parking lot at 95th Street and King Drive in Chicago was near, but not on the campus of Chicago State University. Not school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 2 School Shootings | 3 Everytown Lies
1/22/13 HOUSTON, TX Lone Star College North Harris Campus
Trey Foster shot several people on the school’s campus after a personal dispute. This is an actual on-campus shooting, even if not what most would envision when picturing a “school shooting.” That brings Everytown up to 50% with this atypical school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 3 School Shootings | 3 Everytown Lies
1/31/13 ATLANTA, GA Price Middle School
A teen shot another student in the middle school’s courtyard before being disarmed by the school’s SRO (school resource officer/campus police). This was a more conventional school shooting, the third we’ve encountered so far that matches the common perception of a perpetrator opening fire against students.
Fact Check Tally: 4 School Shootings | 3 Everytown Lies
2/1/13 ATLANTA, GA Morehouse College
Cornelius Savage was shot by Amir Obafemi over a pickup basketball game just inside the doorway of the Samuel H. Archer Hall Recreation and Fitness Center. Again atypical, but an on-campus attack of a student. We’ll count it.
Fact Check Tally: 5 School Shootings | 3 Everytown Lies
2/7/13 FORT PIERCE, FL Indian River State College
Fort Pierce Police Chief Sean Baldwin said that a police chase that went across the city that ended up in a shootout between the suspect and the police in a campus parking lot was “just a coincidence.” This was not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 5 School Shootings | 4 Everytown Lies
2/13/13 SAN LEANDRO, CA Hillside Elementary School
A man shot another man over $5 owned in a dice game at 8:45 PM, long after the school was closed. This shooting had nothing at all to due with the school, the students, the faculty, or the staff. This was not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 5 School Shootings | 5 Everytown Lies
2/27/13 ATLANTA, GA Henry W. Grady High School
Morgan Tukes, 17, negligently discharged a bullet into her own leg. This was not an attack, and is therefore not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 5 School Shootings | 6 Everytown Lies
3/18/13 ORLANDO, FL University of Central Florida
James Oliver Seevakumaran planned a school shooting, but was thwarted when his roommate called 911 and he committed suicide in his apartment instead. He did live in on-campus and he meant to carry out an attack, so we’ll count it as an atypical.
Fact Check Tally: 6 School Shootings | 6 Everytown Lies
3/21/13 SOUTHGATE, MI Davidson Middle School
A student committed suicide on campus. While tragic, this was not an attack nor meant to be and therefore not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 6 School Shootings | 7 Everytown Lies
4/12/13 CHRISTIANSBURG, VA New River Community College
A student drove to a community campus college and opened fire on his fellow students. This is our fourth conventional school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 7 School Shootings | 7 Everytown Lies
4/13/13 ELIZABETH CITY, NC Elizabeth City State University
A student was targeted walking back to his dorm on the ECSU. Atypical, but still an attack against a student on campus.
Fact Check Tally: 8 School Shootings | 7 Everytown Lies
4/15/13 GRAMBLING, LA Grambling State University
Three students were shot outside a dormitory at night. This atypical shooting counts.
Fact Check Tally: 9 School Shootings | 7 Everytown Lies
4/16/13 TUSCALOOSA, AL Stillman College
A shooting over an apparent gambling debt. Atypical, but still a shooting of a student by a student on campus.
Fact Check Tally: 10 School Shootings | 7 Everytown Lies
4/29/13 CINCINNATI, OH La Salle High School
A suicide attempt without any attempt to hurt any students, faculty, or staff. Horrific, but not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 10 School Shootings | 8 Everytown Lies
5/3/13 HATTIESBURG, MS University of Southern Mississipi
Negligent discharge by a college student into his own leg in his own vehicle on campus. While stupid, it wasn’t a crime, and isn’t a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 10 School Shootings | 9 Everytown Lies
6/7/13 SANTA MONICA, CA Santa Monica College
An actual mass shooting, but not a school shooting, according to the authorities themselves.
Authorities cautioned that the incidents were not directly related to the community college. They said the school just happened to be where the shootings ended.
“This is not a school shooting,” said Al Vasquez, chief of the Santa Monica College Police Department. “This began off-campus and it was unfortunate that the suspect chose SMC to continue his crimes.”
Fact Check Tally: 10 School Shootings | 10 Everytown Lies
6/19/13 WEST PALM BEACH, FL Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts
A custodian murdered two co-workers overnight over what appears to be a personal matter. School was not in session, and no students were on campus. It find it hard to classify this as a school shooting since there was not school being held.
Fact Check Tally: 10 School Shootings | 11 Everytown Lies
8/15/13 CLARKSVILLE, TN Northwest High School
A narcotics murder in a parking lot between known felons, at night, over summer break? Everytown, you’re just embarrassing yourself at this point.
Fact Check Tally: 10 School Shootings | 12 Everytown Lies
8/20/13 DECATUR, GA Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy
I remember this one. This was a cry for help from a young man who never attempted to hurt any faculty, staff, or students, and even stated precisely that. School clerk Antoinette Tuff talked him him into surrendering. He didn’t attempt to shoot any faculty, staff, or students, and there were no injuries of any kind, it doesn’t count.
Fact Check Tally: 10 School Shootings | 13 Everytown Lies
8/22/13 MEMPHIS, TN Westside Elementary School
5-year-old had a gun in his backpack that negligently discharged. “No evidence of harmful intent,” according to the school district. Disturbing, but not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 10 School Shootings | 14 Everytown Lies
8/23/13 SARDIS, MS North Panola High School
A shootout between gangs that occurred after a high school football game. It’s not a classic school shooting, but it was an attack that occurred after a school function on campus involving a student. It’s an atypical.
Fact Check Tally: 11 School Shootings | 14 Everytown Lies
8/30/13 WINSTON-SALEM, NC Carver High School
A student shot another student on campus during the school day over an on-going personal dispute. A legitimate-by-any-definition school shooting. Our fifth conventional school shooting out of 26 cases so far, if you’re keeping score at home.
Fact Check Tally: 12 School Shootings | 14 Everytown Lies
9/21/13 SAVANNAH, GA Savannah State University
A non-student was shot and killed at an on-campus housing complex at 3:30 AM. As we’re counting those shootings that affect students that live in dorms, not non-students we could toss this one, but we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Fact Check Tally: 13 School Shootings | 14 Everytown Lies
9/28/13 GRAY, ME Gray-New Gloucester High School
Random non-student commits suicide on a Saturday in a school parking lot. Really, Everytown?
Fact Check Tally: 13 School Shootings | 15 Everytown Lies
10/4/13 PINE HILLS, FL Agape Christian Academy
A non-student came onto campus and shot two students (one of whom appears to have been the target) then fled. Personal dispute, but was on campus during the school day and the victims were both students.This is our sixth conventional school shooting of 29 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 14 School Shootings | 15 Everytown Lies
10/15/13 AUSTIN, TX Lanier High School
Another sad on-campus suicide. Not an attack on any faculty, staff, or students. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 14 School Shootings | 16 Everytown Lies
10/21/13 SPARKS, NV Sparks Middle School
Student shot and killed a teacher and wounded two others before killing himself. Our seventh conventional shoot shooting in 31 cases so far.
Fact Check Tally: 15 School Shootings | 16 Everytown Lies
11/1/13 ALGONA, IA Algona High/Middle School
A 23-year-old who had committed suicide was discovered at 1:20 AM on a Friday morning. Not school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 15 School Shootings | 17 Everytown Lies
11/2/13 GREENSBORO, NC North Carolina A&T State University
A student was hit at approximately 10:00 PM by a bullet fired from “a considerable distance.” It was on-campus and the wounded man was a student. Atypical but it counts.
Fact Check Tally: 16 School Shootings | 17 Everytown Lies
11/3/13 STONE MOUNTAIN, GA Stephenson High School
Student who was an innocent bystander was hit in a shootout between non-students. He was on campus. While non-conventional, it counts.
Fact Check Tally: 17 School Shootings | 17 Everytown Lies
11/21/13 RAPID CITY, SD South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
A professor committed suicide. A tragedy, but not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 17 School Shootings | 18 Everytown Lies
12/4/13 WINTER GARDEN, FL West Orange High School
Student shot another student in an on-campus fight. This counts. This is our eighth conventional school shooting of 36 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 18 School Shootings | 18 Everytown Lies
12/13/13 CENTENNIAL, CO Arapahoe High School
This was an attempted mass shooting by an angry Marxist student thwarted by a school resource officer’s (SRO) incredibly fast response. There was regrettably one casualty. This is one of several instances where SROs have kept a Sandy Hook-type mass shooting from occurring on campus, and another incident that validates the National School Shield concept and the work done by the Homeland Security Institute at Purdue University, which shows that when school campuses are protected by a combination of armed SROs and concealed carrying faculty and staff, casualties are greatly reduced. Ninth “conventional” school shooting of 37 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 19 School Shootings | 18 Everytown Lies
12/19/13 FRESNO, CA Edison High School
This was an armed robbery/shooting by gang members well after school hours. Nice try, Everytown.
Fact Check Tally: 19 School Shootings | 19 Everytown Lies
2014
1/9/14 JACKSON, TN Liberty Technology Magnet High School
One student shot another after school, on campus. It counts as out 10th conventional school shooting, of 39 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 20 School Shootings | 19 Everytown Lies
1/14/14 ROSWELL, NM Berrendo Middle School
A conventional on-campus student-on-student shooting. 11th conventional school shooting so far of 40.
Fact Check Tally: 21 School Shootings | 19 Everytown Lies
1/15/14 LANCASTER, PA King Elementary School
A non-attack. One of two black males on the edge of school property discharged a handgun, but not at the faculty, staff, or students. Everytown is trying to pull a fast one, again. They don’t get credit for this.
Fact Check Tally: 21 School Shootings | 20 Everytown Lies
1/17/14 PHILADELPHIA, PA Delaware Valley Charter High School
A student shot two other students in the school gym. Count it. 12th conventional school shooting so far.
Fact Check Tally: 22 School Shootings | 20 Everytown Lies
1/20/14 CHESTER, PA Widener University
According to authorities, this appears to be a targeted shooting that took place behind a sports complex on a Monday night. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 22 School Shootings | 21 Everytown Lies
1/21/14 WEST LAFAYETTE, IN Purdue University
Grad student murder of another grad student. Count it. 13th conventional shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 23 School Shootings | 21 Everytown Lies
1/24/14 ORANGEBURG, SC South Carolina State University
A student was murdered in on-campus housing at 1:20 AM. Not conventional, but an on-campus murder of a student.
Fact Check Tally: 24 School Shootings | 21 Everytown Lies
1/28/14 GRAMBLING, LA Grambling State University
Three students shot outside a dorm by non-students. Unconventional, but as we’re counting shootings outside dorms of students, we’re counting it.
Fact Check Tally: 25 School Shootings | 21 Everytown Lies
1/28/14 NASHVILLE, TN Tennessee State University
“No one associated with the university involved in shooting.” That was the freaking headline, Everytown.
Fact Check Tally: 24 School Shootings | 22 Everytown Lies
1/31/14 PHOENIX, AZ Cesar Chavez High School
Gang fight, at night, outside the school. No students involved.
Lt. Sean Connelly, who oversees the Phoenix Police Department’s Gang Enforcement Unit, said the altercation came from a chance encounter and that none of the suspects were students from either school.
Lazy, Everytown. Even for you.
Fact Check Tally: 24 School Shootings | 23 Everytown Lies
1/31/14 DES MOINES, IA North High School
Once again, gang-related, at night, after a basketball game, but no evidence the shooting was on campus.
“There’s no other evidence that they found that tied, that indicated the shooting of any kind,” Halifax said. “No victims on scene. Nobody had been hit. No cartridge cases were found.”
Fact Check Tally: 24 School Shootings | 24 Everytown Lies
2/7/14 BEND, OR Bend High School
Campus suicide. Shooter did not try to harm anyone else.
Fact Check Tally: 24 School Shootings | 25 Everytown Lies
2/10/14 SALISBURY, NC Salisbury High School
Shooting took place off campus. Attacker was a non-student. Shooting was in apparent retaliation of ran incident that took place the weekend before, also off-campus.
Fact Check Tally: 24 School Shootings | 26 Everytown Lies
2/11/14 LYNDHURST, OH Charles F. Brush High School
Non-students shot at another non-student in a fight over a girl in the parking lot outside a high school basketball game. No sale.
Fact Check Tally: 24 School Shootings | 27 Everytown Lies
2/12/14 JACKSON, TN Union University
A domestic incident, specifically, a man murdered his fiance and made it look like a suicide. Was on campus killing of a student by another student after hours. 14th, barely “conventional” school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 25 School Shootings | 27 Everytown Lies
2/20/14 RAYTOWN, MO Raytown Success Academy
Killing was in a conference center parking lot, not a school. Lazy, Everytown.
Fact Check Tally: 25 School Shootings | 28 Everytown Lies
3/2/14 WESTMINSTER, MD McDaniel College
An off-campus incident may have lead to shots being fired through a dormitory lobby window. There are no definitive links however, tying the incidents together, and it does not appear there were ever any arrests. Whiteford Hall is on the edge of campus, and there’s simply no way of knowing why the shots were fired. There’s simply too much ambiguity to include this as a school shooting. Everytown should be ashamed.
Fact Check Tally: 25 School Shootings | 29 Everytown Lies
3/7/14 TALLULAH, LA Madison Parish High School
The incident took place behind the school on a Friday night. There is no confirmation it took place on the school’s campus. The linked story is the only media mention of the incident at all. Once again, there’s too little information to call this even an unconventional school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 25 School Shootings | 30 Everytown Lies
3/8/14 OSHKOSH, WI University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh
A non-student fired a single bullet into the ceiling of a dance held on campus at 11:00 PM on a Saturday night. Certainly not a conventional shooting, but we’ll count it.
Fact Check Tally: 26 School Shootings | 30 Everytown Lies
3/23/14 NEWARK, DE University of Delaware
Other than self-referential links back to Everytown, I can find no evidence at all of a supposed shooting in a University of Delaware parking lot.
Fact Check Tally: 26 School Shootings | 31 Everytown Lies
3/30/14 SAVANNAH, GA Savannah State University
A student shot another student in an apparent armed robbery outside a campus residence hall. Not a conventional shoot shooting, but we are counting those outside of dorms.
Fact Check Tally: 27 School Shootings | 31 Everytown Lies
4/2/14 KENT, OH Kent State University
A student negligently discharged a round into his hand during an argument. As we can’t discern intent and there was an argument and he may have been intending to threaten the other person, we’ll count it as an atypical.
Fact Check Tally: 28 School Shootings | 31 Everytown Lies
4/11/14 DETROIT, MI East English Village Preparatory Academy
Innocent bystander hit in a gang-on-gang drive-by after an after-hours event. Yeah… no.
Fact Check Tally: 28 School Shootings | 32 Everytown Lies
4/21/14 GRIFFITH, IN St. Mary Catholic School
Domestic murder in a parking lot after school hours. Horrible story. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 28 School Shootings | 33 Everytown Lies
4/21/14 PROVO, UT Provo High School
Student on the fringe of campus attempted and failed suicide, then called to report the incident himself. Not an attack, and not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 28 School Shootings | 34 Everytown Lies
4/26/14 COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA Iowa Western Community College
Saturday afternoon “Craiglist”-type swap turned robbery. Not remotely what one would consider a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 28 School Shootings | 35 Everytown Lies
5/2/14 MILWAUKEE, WI Marquette University
Even the headline says “near campus” in this botched robbery. Again, not close to being a school shooting by even the most charitable definition.
Fact Check Tally: 28 School Shootings | 36 Everytown Lies
5/3/14 EVERETT, WA Horizon Elementary
Two groups of non-students got into a fight on a Saturday afternoon on a outdoor basketball court, and one of the guys was shot. Not remotely a school shooting. Everytown isn’t even trying anymore.
Fact Check Tally: 28 School Shootings | 36 Everytown Lies
5/4/14 AUGUSTA, GA Paine College
One student shot another in a Saturday argument in a campus administration building. This is a legitimate school shooting, the 15th we’ve encountered in 65 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 29 School Shootings | 36 Everytown Lies
5/5/14 AUGUSTA, GA Paine College
Same college, next day. A student was injured by debris from what are believed to be bullets fired through a dorm wall. Unconventional but it counts.
Fact Check Tally: 30 School Shootings | 36 Everytown Lies
5/8/14 LAWRENCEVILLE, GA Georgia Gwinnett College
An apparent suicide attempt on a parking deck that didn’t even trigger a lockdown at the school. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 30 School Shootings | 37 Everytown Lies
5/8/14 GEORGETOWN, KY Georgetown College
Idiot playing with gun cutting across a corner of the campus after a party at 1:30 AM negligently discharges a round into his buddy. A crime? Yes. A School Shooting? Nope.
Fact Check Tally: 30 School Shootings | 38 Everytown Lies
5/21/14 MILWAUKEE, WI Clarke Street School Playground
10-year-old girl playing on a school playground when two thugs decided to have a shootout one evening. Horrific she was caught in the crossfire. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 30 School Shootings | 39 Everytown Lies
6/5/14 SEATTLE, WA Seattle Pacific University
An attempted mass shooting on a school campus. More killing was thwarted by a student who is a shooting enthusiast and NRA supporter, who also kept the killer from committing suicide. A “conventional” school shooting, the 16th of 70 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 31 School Shootings | 39 Everytown Lies
6/10/14 TROUTDALE, OR Reynolds High School
An attempted mass shooting that was quickly shut down by armed school RSOs rapidly responding to the scene. A “conventional” school shooting, the 17th of 71 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 32 School Shootings | 39 Everytown Lies
6/23/14 BENTON, MO Kelly High School
An accidental/negligent shooting after school hours in a school parking lot. Decidedly not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 32 School Shootings | 40 Everytown Lies
6/27/14 MIAMI, FL University of Miami
Transvestite domestic violence attempted murder of a college instructor. Bizarre, but it is “conventional” according to our criteria, and our 18th.
Fact Check Tally: 33 School Shootings | 40 Everytown Lies
8/13/14 FREDRICK, MD Heather Ridge High School
Two idiots who had a problem with one another decided to shoot at each other, well after school hours, when no one else was on campus. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 33 School Shootings | 41 Everytown Lies
8/14/14 NEWPORT NEWS, VA Saunders Elementary School
Non-student killed two non-students at 1:30 AM during summer break. Really, Everytown? Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 33 School Shootings | 42 Everytown Lies
9/2/14 POCATELLO, ID Idaho State University
Professor with a concealed carry permit negligently discharged a round into his own foot. Stupid, but not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 33 School Shootings | 43 Everytown Lies
9/5/14 SAVANNAH, GA Savannah State University
Another on-campus shooting at Savannah State. Don’t go there. Ever. It counts as an atypical school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 34 School Shootings | 43 Everytown Lies
9/10/14 LAKE MARY, FL Greenwood Lakes Middle School
A tragic student suicide. Never an attempt to hurt anyone else. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 34 School Shootings | 44 Everytown Lies
9/11/14 TAYLORSVILLE, UT Westbrook Elementary School
Negligent discharge by a teacher in the bathroom. Not anything remotely like an attack, or a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 34 School Shootings | 44 Everytown Lies
9/27/14 NASHVILLE, TN Tennessee State University
Suspected drug deal gone bad off campus at 1:00 AM on property owned by House of God church. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 34 School Shootings | 45 Everytown Lies
9/29/14 TERRE HAUTE, IN Indiana State University
Student shot in an illegal dice game at a residence hall. Allowed as an typical school shooting due to our generous “residence hall rule.”
Fact Check Tally: 35 School Shootings | 45 Everytown Lies
9/30/14 LOUISVILLE, KY Fern Creek High School
Student shot another student in school. This is a legitimate, conventional school shooting, the 19th of 81 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 36 School Shootings | 45 Everytown Lies
9/30/14 ALBERMARLE, NC Albermarle High School
An on-campus, student to student shooting. This is a legitimate, conventional school shooting, the 20th of 82 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 37 School Shootings | 45 Everytown Lies
10/3/14 FAIRBURN, GA Langston Hughes High School
Non-student shot in a parking lot at 10:00 PM on a Friday night. Gang involvement suspected. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 37 School Shootings | 46 Everytown Lies
10/8/14 ELIZABETH CITY, NC Elizabeth City State University
An armed robbery involving non-students at 1:14 AM? Yeah… not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 37 School Shootings | 47 Everytown Lies
10/13/14 NASHVILLE, TN Tennessee State University
Dorm room drug-related armed robbery. Everytown is lucky we have the dorm rule in place.
Fact Check Tally: 38 School Shootings | 47 Everytown Lies
10/18/14 LANGSTON, OK Langston University
Non-student shot after a fight in a university-owned apartment complex. “Dorm rule” favors Everytown once again.
Fact Check Tally: 39 School Shootings | 47 Everytown Lies
10/21/14 MEMPHIS, TN A. Maceo Walker Middle School
Stupid kid shoots self showing a gun to friends. Not an attack, not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 39 School Shootings | 48 Everytown Lies
10/24/14 MARYSVILLE, WA Marysville Pilchuck High School
The deadliest mass shooting in a high school in a decade, and the first successful mass shooting on a school campus since Sandy Hook. This is a legitimate, conventional school shooting, the 21st of 88 claimed, and the only mass school shooting on the list.
Fact Check Tally: 40 School Shootings | 48 Everytown Lies
11/20/14 TALLAHASSEE, FL Florida State University
A former student opened fire outside the library at FSU, wounding three before being killed by police. Ironically, one of the wounded has a concealed carry permit, but was disarmed by campus policy. He might have ended the rampage before it got going.This is a legitimate, conventional school shooting, the 22nd of 89 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 41 School Shootings | 48 Everytown Lies
11/23/14 ANNAPOLIS, MD St. John’s College
Teen non-student shot during private party in rented facility after midnight on a weekend. Nope. Not a legitimate school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 41 School Shootings | 49 Everytown Lies
12/5/14 CLAREMORE, OK Rogers State University
Domestic on campus. Former cop tried to murder his ex through a school building window. She was a student on campus, so it counts even though it could have happened anywhere. 23rd conventional.
Fact Check Tally: 42 School Shootings | 49 Everytown Lies
12/17/14 WATERVILLE, ME Benton Elementary School
Man with no connection to the school committed suicide in his car in the school parking lot. Tragic, but not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 42 School Shootings | 50 Everytown Lies
12/17/14 PITTSBURGH, PA Sunnyside Elementary School
20-year-old non-student shot 11:00 PM the night before in a car in the school parking lot. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 42 School Shootings | 51 Everytown Lies
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1/15/15 MILWAUKEE, WI Wisconsin Lutheran High School
Non-student fired a shot that injured a teacher and a student during a school function at night. We’ll allow it as an conventional, and our 24th.
Fact Check Tally: 43 School Shootings | 51 Everytown Lies
1/16/15 OCALA, FL Vanguard High School
Two people were hit in a shooting on a Friday night in a parking lot outside a high school basketball game. They don’t appear to be the targets, and there’s no evidence putting the shooter on campus. There’s simply not enough evidence to classify this as any kind of a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 43 School Shootings | 52 Everytown Lies
1/20/15 MOBILE, AL Williamson High School
A man was shot near the high school as he passed by. The location of the shooter was not known. This isn’t close to being a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 43 School Shootings | 53 Everytown Lies
1/26/15 ROSEVILLE, MN Hand and Hand Montessori School
A man committed suicide on a private school campus in his car. While a bullet hit the school, it was not aimed at anyone and the police do not think he was attempting to hurt anyone else. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 43 School Shootings | 54 Everytown Lies
2/2/15 MANKATO, MN Minnesota State University
An Iraq War veteran committed suicide. Very sad. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 43 School Shootings | 55 Everytown Lies
2/4/15 FREDERICK, MD Frederick High School
Two non-students were shot by a group of 4 males in a targeted shooting in a field on the edge of the school’s property at 8:00 PM. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 43 School Shootings | 56 Everytown Lies
2/4/15 COLUMBIA, SC University of South Carolina
A domestic murder-suicide on campus. It could have happened anywhere, but it counts as our 25th of 100 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 44 School Shootings | 56 Everytown Lies
2/15/15 LITTLE ROCK, AR Lawson Elementary School
It took place at 2:00 AM on a Sunday morning. Not remotely a legitimate school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 44 School Shootings | 57 Everytown Lies
2/15/15 MERCED, CA Tenaya Middle School
Shot to death on a Sunday night. Not a legitimate school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 44 School Shootings | 58 Everytown Lies
2/15/15 ATHENS, GA University of Georgia
Frat boy fired a gun in the air at his frat house. It’s dubious, but falls under our campus housing rule as an atypical.
Fact Check Tally: 45 School Shootings | 58 Everytown Lies
2/23/15 DAYTONA BEACH, FL Bethune-Cookman University
Three apparently random men were grazed by bullets on a Monday evening. Shooter was not located, and it isn’t known if they were targeted, or where the shots came from. Not enough information to call this an intentional attack. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 45 School Shootings | 59 Everytown Lies
3/9/15 COON RAPIDS, MN Northwest Passage High School
Did not happen on campus, but at an apartment complex. Lazy basic fact-finding by Everytown, yet again.
Fact Check Tally: 45 School Shootings | 60 Everytown Lies
4/2/15 BEAVER FALLS, PA Community College of Beaver County
Idjut ND’d into his leg while cleaning his gun in his car on airport property. Not remotely a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 45 School Shootings | 61 Everytown Lies
4/2/15 JACKSON, TN Lane College
Student was shot near campus, apparently found near school cafeteria. Not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 45 School Shootings | 62 Everytown Lies
4/4/15 EVERETT, WA Everett Community College
A man discharged a round on a Saturday morning. There were not students, faculty, or staff targeted. Not any sort of attack, and not a school shooting.
Fact Check Tally: 45 School Shootings | 63 Everytown Lies
4/13/15 GOLDSBORO, NC Wayne Community College
Personal vendetta resulting in the murder of a faculty member on campus. This is a legitimate, conventional school shooting, the 26th of 109 claimed.
Fact Check Tally: 46 School Shootings | 63 Everytown Lies
4/17/15 SEGUIN, TX Seguin High School
An unfortunate on-campus suicide. No attempt made to hard faculty, staff, or students. Not a school shooting
Fact Check Tally: 46 School Shootings | 64 Everytown Lies
4/18/15 DOVER, DE Delaware State University
Three people were shot on a Saturday at a fraternity event. This is a legitimate school shooting, if not a classroom sho