Shoot

So, coding is boring, but the rest of the world is not.

The latest shootings to occur nationally in Las Vegas and in Oregon led me to this map.

Several news outlets made their own version of the map using numbers from Everytown.org. I like the Boston Globe's map because it shows the locales with proportionality of fatalities and is school-shooting specific. (It's based on Slate's gun violence map from last year which depressingly had to be retired because it was too large.) Various media outlets/bloggers are picking apart the numbers. Regardless of whether or not an "incident" resulted in a death, the map represents geographically where these youth/young adult gun tragedies occur.

What caught my eye is the geography of the incidents and that many took place on school property. This map looks suspiciously like the map of teen bullying and teen suicide from the CDC that first piqued my interest in creating QWhere. These localities overlap almost perfectly with the National Broadband Map; where there is poor or no access to the Internet, there is higher rates of bullying in schools and teen suicide - and now, youth gun violence.

It is a sad, but not surprising, correlation that will no doubt become a topic in my thesis.