Kentucky, Iowa and Florida experienced the highest rates of victims per shooting during that period, even though Kentucky and Iowa only experienced two and three events, respectively. The threat of gun violence at schools underscores a grim reality of childhood in the United States today: In 2020...
The deadliest school shooting in the United States as of September 4, 2024, was the Virginia Tech massacre, with 32 fatalities and 23 injuries.
A shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas on Friday left 10 people dead, including nine students and one teacher. Ten other people were hurt. Police arrested the alleged gunman, 17-year old Dimitrios Pagourtzi. He is being held on a capital murder charge. The guns he allegedly used wer...
Audrey Hale, who killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school, targeted students with “white privileges” per shooter's writings School shooting By Althea Legaspi Parents of Michigan School Shooter Will Stand Trial on Unprecedented Charges ...
Although assault weapons bans may reduce the overall number of school shooting victims, the average reduction in murder victims may be less than 10 per year. Hence, it is unclear if gun control is the most appropriate policy to use to reduce the number school shooting victims....
shit behind my back. Fuck you…. There’s other friends and people I hate…”.Footnote48After his rampage, Jon told investigators that he had “had fantasies for about the last year of going into Columbia and shooting up the place. The fantasies were of me shooting random people”....
From 1970 to 2021, the rate of children being school shooting victims more than quadrupled, from 0.49 to 2.21 per 1 million population. Deaths increased more than sixfold, from 0.16 to 0.97 per 1 million population. California had the most school shootings (214), followed by Texas (176), ...
Confronted with the awful reality of a school shooting, one of the most difficult questions in everyone's mind is, "How could they do such a thing"? The answer lies in the belief that they have the authority to act and a better understanding of this component may one day provide ...
At thebeginning of 2018, Education Week, a journal covering education in the US, began t track school shootings—and hassince recorded 23 incidents where there were deaths or injuries.With many parts of the US having about 180 school days per year t means, on average, a shooting once ...