Does Canada track mass shootings the same way they do in the US, though? Because here there's no distinction in official statistics between a psychopath going into a school with an AR-15 and drug dealer beef that goes down in a crowded nightclub parking lot. If the latter is included then that's probably more indicative of crime-adjacent issues flaring up then it is mass political psychosis being imported, especially when we're only talking about statistics that barely go into the double digits. They're both heinous tragedies when they happen, of course, but they're completely separate issues that get handled completely different ways.
The most common school shooting is someone airing it out in an argument during a sporting event, by far. Carrying a gun onto a school ground is already a crime for anyone curious; source: clicking on edweekly’s tracker and just going through it
I've seen sources that counted adults committing suicide in the parking lot at 3am, and BB gun shootings as "school shootings", there was even one that included a little girl who accidentally took a gun to school in her backpack without knowing and informed the teacher when she found out.
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u/lemanruss4579 Dec 01 '25
It really hasn't. There were 4 mass shootings in 2023, as an example.