More than 240,000 students have been exposed to school shootings in America since the mass shooting in Columbine in April 1999, according to data used in the study. And the number of school shootings per year has been trending up since 2015. Yet despite this "uniquely American phenomenon"—s...
Since the start of the New Year, in just 45 days, there have been 78 mass shootings across the United States, or an average of 1.7 per day, leaving 129 dead and 294 wounded. Figures also showed that the number of mass shootings across the country has been rising sharply, from 339 in ...
School Shootings are a massive problem in America, and we need to find a solution to the problem. School shootings need to be eliminated in America because over 400 people a year are affected directly, and millions more people are affected indirectly. In an effort to eliminate school shootings...
It will never happen to me, you could say, well, it could.y Behind school shootings students spend one hundred and eighty days per year at school, they spend so much time getting an education, but is the environment they’re in actually safe? There are many causes of school shootings ...
Guns are deeply ingrained in U.S. society and the nation's political debates. With nearly 400 million guns in civilian hands -- the equivalent of 120 firearms per 100 citizens, the United States is also an outlier among wealthy, developed countries in terms of gun issues. ...
Rhode Island currently requires schools to hold two lockdown drills per year, but the committee is looking at the possibility of increasing that number. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, leaders are also taking measures to make their schools safer. To get into Greater New Bedford Vocational Technical Hi...
be very effective in protecting the lives of students. Even the general public saves far more lives with guns than are lost in accidents. U.S. civilians use guns to stoppotentially lethal violencemore than 100,000 times per year, while there are less than 600 fatalfirearm accidentsper year....
violence and self-harm would continue if individuals were sufficiently determined. But guns provide the means to inflict much greater damage than knives or fists. Society cannot avoid every social ill through firearms control, but we know how to reduce the daily drumbeat of lost lives in America...
That study, which is twelve years old -- and drug deaths have risen considerably since then -- documents 106,000 deaths per year from the "adverse effects" of FDA-approved prescription medications.To reach this number from outbreaks of violent shootings, you'd have to see an Aurora Colorado...
While the Serbian government sought to crack down on guns and police raced to investigate the fresh violence, the nation started to ask what social factors may have contributed to the mass shootings. Serbia has one of the highest number of firearms per capita in the world, and guns ...