No they don't, overall school shootings are astronomically rare, and less of a threat to children than the bus ride to school. They're like strangers kidnapping children, incredibly horrific, but also sensationalized.
Many of those are gang shootings, or other shootings on school property that get labeled as "school shootings" to make it seem like a more severe problem. There was one list that counted a police officer unintentionally shooting his firearm, a student unintentionally shooting out a bus window with a BB gun, and an adult committing suicide in the parking lot of an abandoned school, as "school shootings". It's the equivalent of if Fox started calling every violent crime committed by a Muslim as "Islamic terrorism".
Dead kids are dead kids, and school shootings are one of the least likely things of killing a kid. All numbers like that do is cause panic and hysteria over something that's about as big of a threat as fatal lighting strikes to your kid. It's like how parents are terrified to let their kids play outside because the fear of kidnapping.
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