{"id":331549,"date":"2023-09-16T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=331549"},"modified":"2023-09-16T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T15:00:08","slug":"there-is-an-alarming-trend-of-gun-violence-at-high-school-football-games-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=331549","title":{"rendered":"There is &#039;an alarming trend&#039; of gun violence at high school football games this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The worrisome trend of gun violence at high school football stadiums has national officials commenting on some disturbing numbers. Gun violence is on the rise at high school football games, and it is dimming what is special about Friday Night Lights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Rather than fans jumping for touchdowns to support their local high school, on 17 occasions this year alone, fans have instead had to run away from the bleachers due to gunshots at games.\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/dunbar-football-game-cancelled-after-gunshots-were-fired\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A recent shooting in Baltimore<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0saw players running full speed into the locker room at the sound of gunfire from next to the stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/friday-night-lights-fire-high-school-football-games-are-blitzed-gun-vi-rcna103642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In a story compiled and researched by NBC News<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, individuals such as Karissa Niehoff, the executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations, are beyond concerned by the numbers this year at high school football games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Although the season isn&#8217;t even a month old, there have been 17 shootings nationally at high school football stadiums.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIt\u2019s been sad to watch,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/friday-night-lights-fire-high-school-football-games-are-blitzed-gun-vi-rcna103642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Niehoff told NBC News<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. \u201cHorrific. It\u2019s definitely the worst I can remember in 35 years as a teacher, coach, leader in sports.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A criminologist, David Reidman agrees with Niehoff&#8217;s bigger point about the seriousness of the issue and the worrisome direction that the numbers indicate.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI would call it an alarming trend,\u201d Riedman said. \u201cRight now, it appears we\u2019re on pace with last year when there was at least one shooting at a football game each week on the season.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There have been two deaths and 13 injured during these shootings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Gun violence is a growing issue at high school football games.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331550,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331549\/revisions\/331550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}