Examining School Shootings at the National and State Level and Mental Health Implications.
According to the Washington Post, at least 390,000 students were exposed to a school shooting (exposure is defined as students attending a school at which a shooting occurred during the current school year) since the 1999 Columbine shooting. This brief analyzes the rate of student exposure to...
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Since the Columbine school shooting in
1999, there have been over
420 school shootings across the United States. More than
160 of these shootings occurred after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, indicating a significant increase. While 2024 marked the beginning of a
decline in the number of mass shootings per year since the onset of the pandemic, this trend did not apply to
school shootings, the number of which remains consistently high to date. Although
school shootings continue to account for a small portion of total firearm violence, they can have a widespread impact that goes beyond physical harm. According to the Washington Post, at least
390,000 students were exposed to a school shooting (exposure is defined as students attending a school at which a shooting occurred during the current school year) since the
1999 Columbine shooting.
Over
420 school shootings,. How many more dead school children will it take before the gun huggers being to understand the lives of school children are more important than their ******* guns.