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An important perspective on school shootings:
The Education Department reports [as of March 8, 2018] that roughly 50 million children attend public schools for roughly 180 days per year. Since Columbine, approximately 200 public school students have been shot to death while school was in session, including the recent slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (and a shooting in Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday that police called accidental that left one student dead). That means the statistical likelihood of any given public school student being killed by a gun, in school, on any given day since 1999 was roughly 1 in 614,000,000. And since the 1990s, shootings at schools have been getting less common.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/school-shootings-are-extraordinarily-rare-why-is-fear-of-them-driving-policy/2018/03/08/f4ead9f2-2247-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html
Undated: List of school shootings in the United States ... 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
Undated: List of worldwide school massacres by death toll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_massacres_by_death_toll
Undated: The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. The perpetrator, Adam Lanza, fatally shot his mother before murdering 20 students and six staff members at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, and later committing suicide.[1] A number of fringe figures have promoted conspiracy theories that doubt or dispute what occurred at Sandy Hook. Various conspiracy theorists have claimed, for example, that the massacre was actually orchestrated by the U.S. Government as part of an elaborate plot to promote stricter gun control laws.[2] Other conspiracy theorists ... have denied that the massacre actually occurred, asserting that it was "completely fake."[3]
No evidence supports these conspiracy theories, which make a number of implausible claims.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting_conspiracy_theories
A small sampling of
news articles related to school shootings:
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/10/the-san-bernardino-attack-is-the-12th-school-shooting-of-2017-and-the-second-in-a-week/?utm_term=.2ce2e34e9126
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February 14: 17 school shootings in 45 days — Florida massacre is one of many tragedies in 2018
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/14/florida-school-shooting-brings-yearly-tally-to-18-in-2018.html
February 15: 302 School Shootings In America Since 2013
https://everytownresearch.org/school-shootings/
February 16: Trump’s education secretary joins Democrats in calling for congressional hearings on school shootings
Betsy DeVos told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that Parkland shooting should prompt “much more robust conversation around tracking and tackling mental health issues.”
Like past school shootings, the Florida massacre inspired calls for more restrictions on firearms and the expansion of mental health services, especially because the accused gunman exhibited troubling behavior. But while past school shootings have shocked the nation's conscience, none — not even the worst — moved Congress to pass legislation to attempt to address the issue.
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/02/16/trumps-education-secretary-joins-democrats-in-calling-for-congressional-hearings-on-school-shootings/
March 7: Alabama school shooting leaves one student dead, another teen injured
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/03/07/alabama-school-shooting-leaves-one-student-dead-two-others-wounded/?utm_term=.01a60da6237e
March 8: Open Letter to President Donald Trump:
Keep Guns Out of the Classroom: Allow Teachers to Teach
As California Teachers of the Year and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, our focus is on our students, our classrooms, and education policy.
Now, however, we must talk about another topic: guns.
We can no longer remain silent while students, teachers, and classified employees are slain on school campuses with assault weapons designed for combat. Since Columbine took
place nearly 20 years ago, we have witnessed tragedy after tragedy with no significant changes in our national gun laws.
https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/el/le/yr18ltr0308.asp
March 8: The Education Department reports that roughly 50 million children attend public schools for roughly 180 days per year. Since Columbine, approximately 200 public school students have been shot to death while school was in session, including the recent slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (and a shooting in Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday that police called accidental that left one student dead). That means the statistical likelihood of any given public school student being killed by a gun, in school, on any given day since 1999 was roughly 1 in 614,000,000. And since the 1990s, shootings at schools have been getting less common.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/school-shootings-are-extraordinarily-rare-why-is-fear-of-them-driving-policy/2018/03/08/f4ead9f2-2247-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html
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March 11: Trump's plan will seek to 'harden' schools against shootings
President Donald Trump's plan to combat school shootings will include a call on states to increase the minimum age for purchasing assault weapons and an effort to "harden" schools so they're less vulnerable to attacks.
White House spokesman Raj Shah says the president will not advocate "universal" background checks, but will reiterate his support for a bill that would promote better information-sharing.
http://www.wsmv.com/story/37698531/trumps-plan-will-seek-to-harden-schools-against-shootings
March 13: Thousands of small shoes were placed on the ground in front of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning, one pair for each of the estimated 7,000 children who have died from gun violence since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012.
Called Monument for Our Kids, the demonstration is part of a far-reaching effort to pressure Congress to pass additional gun control legislation. The shoes, all worn, were donated by thousands of people across the country, organizers said. Prominent celebrities, including Bette Midler and Chelsea Handler, helped publicize the drive via social media.
http://www.newsweek.com/thousands-shoes-displayed-washington-dc-gun-violence-protest-842488
March 14: In an unprecedented show of unity and political solidarity, waves of students marched out of class Wednesday to demand stricter gun laws and an end to school massacres.
The National School Walkout started at 10 a.m. ET and will continue across the country at 10 a.m. in each time zone. The protest was sparked by last month's school massacre in Parkland, Florida, and fueled by years of anger about what many say are inadequate gun laws.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/us/national-school-walkout-gun-violence-protests/index.html
March 14: U.S. students spilled out of classrooms by the thousands on Wednesday morning, waving signs and chanting slogans like “We want change” in a coast-to-coast protest against gun violence prompted by a deadly rampage at a Florida high school last month.
Some of the students began marching toward Capitol Hill. “Hey hey, ho ho, the NRA has got to go!” they chanted, referring to the powerful gun-rights interest group, the National Rifle Association. Some Democratic lawmakers emerged from the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress to praise the students.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns/we-want-change-say-u-s-students-in-nationwide-walkout-idUSKCN1GQ155
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March 14: Now formally facing the death penalty, the suspect in the Valentine's Day school shooting that killed 17 people in Florida appeared in court Wednesday on a 34-count indictment.
A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf by Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nikolas-cruz-parkland-florida-school-shooting-suspect-expected-in-court-today-2018-03-14-live-stream-updates/
March 14: At a school in North Carolina, he was the only one of 700 students who walked out
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/us/student-walks-out-alone-trnd/index.html
March 14: House passes school gun violence bill, one month after Florida school shooting
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/14/house-passes-school-gun-violence-bill-one-month-after-florida-school-shooting.html
March 15: Barron Trump's school signs open letter to President demanding action on gun laws
"What we do not need is to arm our teachers with guns, which is dangerous and antithetical to our profession as educators," the letter said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/politics/barron-trump-school-gun-action-letter/index.html
March 24: To hear the National Rifle Association tell it, Saturday's March for Our Lives was orchestrated by billionaires and Hollywood to push an anti-gun agenda.
On Facebook Saturday morning, the NRA posted a short membership-drive video along with a brief message.
"Stand and Fight for our Kids' Safety by Joining NRA," it said. "Today's protests aren't spontaneous. Gun-hating billionaires and Hollywood elites are manipulating and exploiting children as part of their plan to DESTROY the Second Amendment and strip us of our right to defend ourselves and our loved ones."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/24/us/nra-march-response-trnd/index.html
March 24: On Eve Of March, NRA Taunts Parkland Survivors
In what can only be described as a desperate plea for attention, the NRA has released a new video that takes aim at survivors of the Parkland shooting, telling them that if their friends hadn’t died, “no one would know your names.”
The video, titled “A March for Their Lies,” was posted to NRA-TV’s YouTube channel just ahead of the student-led March for Our Lives event scheduled for Saturday in Washington, D.C.
Continuing his desperate attack on the teens, the NRA mouthpiece turned his attention to Saturday’s march, calling it “one-sided, logic-deprived, and intellectually dishonest” and dismissing the historic event as a “festival masquerading as a march.” ... accusing them of wanting to “burn the Constitution and rewrite the parts that you all like in crayon.”
http://www.nationalmemo.com/eve-march-nra-taunts-parkland-survivors/
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March 24: While others marched for their lives, these folks marched for their guns
In Washington, Eric Ciabottonia, 19, and John Bolduc, 18, traveled with a group of students from Pennsylvania State University to march for gun rights. The freshman engineering majors said they are supporters of President Donald Trump and came to voice their beliefs about the Second Amendment and see what the opposing side thinks.
"I came to open dialogue," Ciabottonia said, adding that calling for a ban on bump stocks was reactionary. "I like talking to people I disagree with so I can get a broader range of views. I'd say there's a lot of misinformation and I came to talk to people."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/24/us/march-for-our-lives-counter-protests-trnd/index.html
March 25: Thousands register to vote at March For Our Lives demonstrations
“People are really understanding the power of the vote and that’s what’s really motivating a lot of them. They’re figuring out the importance and power of civic engagement.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/march-our-lives-pushes-expand-voter-rolls-across-country-n859756
March 25: Fox News poll show voters' support for gun control measures
53% of voters answered that protecting citizens from guns is more important than protecting the right to own guns
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5757936981001/?#sp=show-clips
April 11: Pennsylvania school district arms teachers with small baseball bats as 'last resort'
Officials in the Millcreek Township School District said the bats are symbolic, but not all parents think they're worth the cost.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pennsylvania-school-district-gives-teachers-small-baseball-bats-last-resort-n864986
May 18: Ten people were killed and several others injured in a shooting Friday morning at a high school in the southeastern Texas city of Santa Fe, a law enforcement official said on condition of anonymity.
Gunfire erupted at Santa Fe High School, about 20 miles outside Galveston, not long after classes began around 7:30 a.m. CT, officials said. Authorities later found explosive devices -- including pipe bombs and pressure cookers -- in and near the school, the law enforcement official said.
This is the third school shooting in eight days across the United States, and the 22nd since the beginning of the year.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/us/texas-school-shooting/index.html
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June 21:
Sheriff Gary Parsons said he was approached by the school system about the possibility of arming teachers inside every school.
"After thinking it through, if it's done properly, I'm in full support of it." Parsons said.
He added that discussing school safety has become a recurring conversation, and he wants to see something done.
"That's the problem, every time we have a school shooting, we have meetings, we have discussions, we have conferences, and we talk and we talk and we never take any action, well it's time to take some type of action," Parsons said.
This type of action, arming school teachers, would require several means of approval.
August 18: The Lee County School Board in Virginia voted to approve a plan that would allow teachers to carry guns.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/18/639822943/virginia-county-approves-plan-to-arm-teachers
November 28: For Defense Against Active Shooters, University Hands Out Hockey Pucks
A participant at the training asked Oakland University Police Chief Mark Gordon what items people could use to defend themselves on the campus, which has a no-weapons policy, the Detroit Free Press reports.
A hockey puck was a "spur-of-the-moment idea that seemed to have some merit to it, and it kind of caught on," Gordon said.
Not everyone on campus was on board with this vision.
The little black discs are meant for more than just self-defense, though.
They're emblazoned with a number that donors can plug into the university's online giving service, which directs any donated funds to the installation of interior locks on the university's classroom doors.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/28/671394863/for-defense-against-active-shooters-mich-school-hands-out-hockey-pucks
December 14: 'It's Preventable': Sandy Hook Parents Promote App For Reporting School Threats
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/14/676375851/it-s-preventable-sandy-hook-parents-promote-app-for-reporting-school-threats
December 26: Three days after the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, a student who survived it set the stage for the gun control drama of 2018. "We are going to be the last mass shooting," Emma Gonzalez, 18, said in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, speech that went viral. "We are going to change the law.’’
The last mass shooting? In a nation with about one a day?
The students vowed to register traditionally apathetic young people to vote; to force the federal government to tighten gun laws, and to force the states to do so even if Congress would not; to defeat in November even the most senior elected officials backed by the National Rifle Association.
To understand what became of such hopes after that bloody Valentine’s Day, consider this calendar of events.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/12/26/parkland-school-shooting-10-months-gun-control-united-states/2310683002/
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May 4: UNC Charlotte Student Killed While Tackling Shooter Will Receive Military Honors
Riley Howell’s obituary remembers him as a hero who “died the way he lived, putting others first.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/riley-howell-unc-charlotte-shooting_n_5ccd9915e4b04e275d4b0c32
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