Georgia was the site of the nation’s deadliest school shooting in 2024, when two teachers and two students were killed Sept. 4 at Apalachee High School in the city of Winder. Nine other people were injured. Texas was also home to the most school shootings in 2023, again with five ...
School shootings in the U.S. Mass shootings in the United States have become a disturbingly common occurrence, and sadly, so have school shootings. The Columbine school shooting is perhaps the most famous in the country’s history, and since 1999 (when the shooting occurred), the number of ...
School shootingsgun violencestate crimehuman rightsThe argument presented in this paper is that the failure of the United States federal government to enact adequate gun control laws that would help prevent school shootings is a state crime by omission. Drawing on international law, as critical ...
Whatever side of the political fence you sit on, we can all agree that school shootings should not happen. And yet the number of school shootings in the United States has been steadily growing in the last few years, rising from a high of 52 in 2019 to 73, 79 and 82 in ...
Article Open access 04 November 2023 Introduction As firearm fatalities surge as a major public health problem in the United States (Grinshteyn and Hemenway, 2019), the country has also been experiencing more shootings in K-12 school premises than nearly all other nations (Grabow and Rose, 201...
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Data from the think tank Rockefeller Institute of Government lists 441 mass shootings in the United States between 1966 and 2022 — more than 95% of the perpetrators of those shootings were men, and just 4.3% were women. The organization defines a mass shooting as "an incident of targeted...
There have been 380 school shootings in the United States since the Columbine High massacre in 1999 in Columbine, Colorado, with 12 students and one teacher murdered, it added.
By James D. Agresti April 11, 2023 In the aftermath of school shootings, media outlets often amplify calls for gun control while ignoring or spurning evidence-based ways to protect students. Here are four life-saving tools they are missing or dismissing.
The last time I was in China before the COVID-19 pandemic began, I heard from parents who were afraid to send their children to study in the U.S. because of their fears about school shootings. For two families from China, their worst fears were almost realized. On Feb. 13, a murdere...