School shootings map since 2013

[waltky]

Mapping Each US School Shooting Since 2013...

Map Shows Every US School Shooting Since 2013
October 13th, 2015 - There have been at least 150 school shootings in the United States since 2013, an average of nearly one per week, according to the group, Everytown for Gun Safety.

The advocacy group created the map below showing the locations of those shootings. To create the map, “school shooting” was defined as, “anytime a firearm is discharged inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds, as documented by the press and confirmed through further inquiries with law enforcement”. Instances in which guns were taken to school but were not fired, or were fired off school grounds after having been on school grounds, are not included on the map. In a 2014 report, Everytown for Gun Safety found that in 70 percent of the incidents, the shooters were minors and that nearly two-thirds of these perpetrators used guns they’d gotten from home.

Map from Everytown for Gun Safety​

One-third of the shootings happened after a verbal argument or other confrontation. Deadly school shootings can have a profound impact on schools and student performance, according to a recent analysis. Louis-Philippe Beland of Louisiana State University and Dongwoo Kim of the University of Missouri found that enrollment in 9th grade — the first year of high school — drops following a deadly shooting, but the numbers of students in the other grades do not.

Flowers are left at a memorial outside Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, Oct. 3, 2015. The gunman who killed his English professor and eight others at an Oregon community college committed suicide after a shootout with police.​

Beland and Kim also found that standardized test scores in math and English drop for up to 3 years following a deadly shooting. Previous research suggests exposure to trauma can damage the hippocampus, a part of the brain that’s thought to be the center of memory and emotion. The negative effects can last long after the students’ school years. Research shows adolescent victims of violence are more likely to suffer from depression as adults.

Map Shows Every US School Shooting Since 2013 « All About America

 

[Auld Phart]

and in the real world, about 2/3 of those took place long after school hours, involved gang to gang shootings, police chases, etc.

Everytown should have Chicken Little for a mascot.

 

[Grandma]

Nice that you found the OP funny, Will.

I'm sure parents that lost their kids will respect you for that.

Dick.

 

[rdean]

The GOP is always looking for reasons to cheer.

 

[Auld Phart]

Nice that you found the OP funny, Will.

I'm sure parents that lost their kids will respect you for that.

Dick.

I'm laughing at the screwed statistics.

They've found it necessary to pad the results since they started.

 

[Auld Phart]

The GOP is always looking for reasons to cheer.

and even more reasons to laugh.

 

[jon_berzerk]

all in gun free zones ta boot

 

[Auld Phart]

Everytowns 'facts' were checked a year or so ago, when it was only 74 school 'shootings'.

Only about 15 of those 'shootings' actually qualified.

A closer look: How many school shootings since Newtown? - CNN.com

 

[waltky]

Murder-suicide involving two 15 yr. old girls...

Arizona school shooting a murder-suicide: police
Sun, Feb 14, 2016 - A shooting at a suburban Phoenix, Arizona, high school that killed two 15-year-old girls and caused panic among parents was a murder-suicide, police said.

Police announced that a suicide note was found at the scene of the shooting on Friday morning near the cafeteria area of Independence High School in Glendale. They said the girls each were shot once, were declared dead at the scene and a weapon was found near the bodies. “Information gathered by detectives reveal the two girls were very close friends, appeared to also be in a relationship,” Glendale police spokeswoman Tracey Breeden said in a statement on Friday afternoon. It is believed nobody witnessed the shooting, Breeden said. Both teens have been identified, but Breeden said “their names will not be confirmed or released at this time by the police department due to their juvenile status.” Hours before the lockdown of the school was lifted, hundreds of worried parents crowded the parking lots of nearby discount and convenience stores.

One woman gnawed on her fingernails as she spoke on a cellphone, while another had tears streaming down her face. Other parents chain-smoked as they waited for news. Cheryl Rice said she went to a store after a friend called about the shooting and asked about Rice’s 15-year-old daughter, but the girl called to say she was safe as Rice arrived at the store. She said it was horrible waiting for word about her child. “You don’t know if it’s your daughter or not. You don’t know who’s being bullied. You don’t know who is being picked on. You don’t know anything. It could be anybody,” Rice said.

Lanie Walter, a senior at the school, heard ambulances on her way to campus, but did not think much of it until her first class was locked down. When she called her parents to tell them she was safe, “my mom was actually really relieved, because she was watching it on the news,” she said. Parents were bused to the school to be reunited with their children. Some cut through a nearby field as they rushed toward their kids in emotional reunions. Other students who got permission from their parents left campus on their own. The Glendale Union High School District alerted parents to the shooting through e-mails and automatic telephone calls and released information on social media, Superintendent Brian Capistran said.

Students typically are not allowed to use their cellphones during lockdowns, but as calls from parents flooded the district, officials asked teachers to have students call family, Capistran said. Social workers and counselors are to be available to students and staff when school resumes on Tuesday, the superintendent said. Minnie Kramer, mother of a 15-year-old student, said she rushed out of work when she got a text from her son right after the shooting, telling her that he was all right. As she waited to be reunited with her son, Kramer said she worried about whether any of his friends were harmed. “I know that my son is OK, but, emotionally, you don’t know what it does, especially at 15, especially if it’s someone he knew,” Kramer said.

Arizona school shooting a murder-suicide: police - Taipei Times