school shootings
FREE NEWS LINKS
HOME
SEARCH
Updates & changes ongoing ....
---- Although this site is
https-secure, we cannot guarantee that it or any provided links are safe; be sure your antivirus
and other security systems are up to date.
Also see: NRA; guns; protests;
Jump to: 2017; 2018;
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:
-- 2017 --
Back to top
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
-- 2018 --
Back to top
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
Back to top
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
Back to top
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/
Back to top
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
Back to top
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/
-- 2019 --
Back to top
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
-- 2020 --
Back to top
Webpage visitor counts provided
by
copyr 2018 trump-news-history.com, Minneapolis, MN