Kasz216 said:
yum123 said:
killerzX said:
wow this is sad. my heart and prayers go out to these people. this kind of people just make me so freakin mad. i hate this.
yet another shooting happens in a gun free zone. how many of these shootings have to happen before people realize how unsafe these gun free zones are.
if just the school had an armed gaurd/teacher/faculty member, they may have been able to stop this senseless tragedy.
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youve got to be kidding me. this is part the reason things like this happen predominantly in america. Guns are so embedded in your culture that they lead to things like this. Guns should be banned completely. if law abiders were armed there would probably be more dead from bullets flying everywhere. only an american would have that response
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It really doesn't though.
They happen more often in the US, because the US is a bigger country. Despite the oddity of so many happening at once... these things are very rare. Therefore a country ten times bigger then most other countries is more likely going to have a mass killing.
There have been like... maybe 60 total in the last 30 years in the USA.
For most countries... if it happens in their country once. They'd have a higher per capita mass murder figure then us.
For example, just Brevik in Norway means that Norway has a MUCH higher per captia mass murder figure then the US does. Even if you count all 60 in the US.
Which isn't to say Norway is a haven and breeding grounds for Mass killers. Just that it's such a small number, it's silly to make any generalizing conclusions.
To blame it on America is to ignore the truth that these things are "seemingly" on the rise... everywhere really. Hard to say though with such a low sample size.
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You serious right now? You need me to fact check you?
http://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/school_violence00-01.html
How does 77 in a decade sound?
Identified School-Related Violent Deaths: 2000-2001 School Year
Total Deaths: 31
Breakdown by Type:
Shooting: 14
Identified School-Related Violent Deaths: 2002-2003 School Year
Total Deaths: 16
Breakdown by Type:
Shooting: 3
Identified School-Related Violent Deaths: 2004-2005 School Year
Total Deaths: 39
Breakdown by Type:
Shooting: 24
Identified School-Related Violent Deaths: 2006-2007 School Year
Total Deaths: 32
Breakdown by Type:
Shooting: 13
Identified School-Related Violent Deaths: 2007-2008 School Year
Total Deaths: 16
Breakdown by Type:
Shooting: 8
Identified School-Related Violent Deaths: 2008-2009 School Year
Total Deaths: 13
Breakdown by Type:
Shooting: 8
Identified School-Related Violent Deaths: 2009-2010 School Year
Total Deaths: 11
Breakdown by Type:
Shooting: 7
Or these..
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| Buell Elementary School shooting |
Mount Morris Township, Michigan |
February 29 |
2000 |
1[citation needed] |
| Lake Worth Middle School shooting |
Lake Worth, Florida |
May 26 |
2000 |
1[citation needed] |
| University of Arkansas shooting |
Fayetteville, Arkansas |
August 28 |
2000 |
2[citation needed] |
| Santana High School shooting |
Santee, California |
March 5 |
2001 |
2[citation needed] |
| Granite Hills High School shooting |
El Cajon, California |
March 22 |
2001 |
0[citation needed] |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. High School shooting |
Manhattan, New York |
January 15 |
2002 |
0[citation needed] |
| Appalachian School of Law shooting |
Grundy, Virginia |
January 16 |
2002 |
3[citation needed] |
| John McDonogh High School shooting |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
April 14 |
2003 |
1[citation needed] |
| University of Arizona Nursing School shooting |
Tucson, Arizona |
October, 28 |
2002 |
4[citation needed] |
| Red Lion Area Junior High School shootings |
Red Lion, Pennsylvania |
April 24 |
2003 |
2[citation needed] |
| Case Western Reserve University shooting |
Cleveland, Ohio |
May 9 |
2003 |
1[citation needed] |
| Rocori High School shooting |
Cold Spring, Minnesota |
September 24 |
2003 |
2[citation needed] |
| Columbia High School shooting |
East Greenbush, New York |
February 9 |
2004 |
0[citation needed] |
| Fairleigh Dickinson University shooting |
Florham Park, New Jersey |
April 4 |
2004 |
2[citation needed] |
| Randallstown High School shooting |
Randallstown, Maryland |
May 7 |
2004 |
0[citation needed] |
| Red Lake Senior High School massacre |
Red Lake, Minnesota |
March 21 |
2005 |
8[citation needed] |
| Campbell County High School shooting |
Jacksboro, Tennessee |
November 8 |
2005 |
1[citation needed] |
| Pine Middle School shooting |
Reno, Nevada |
March 14 |
2006 |
0[citation needed] |
| Essex Elementary School shooting[62] |
Essex, Vermont |
August 24 |
2006 |
2 |
| Orange High School shooting |
Hillsborough, North Carolina |
August 30 |
2006 |
1[citation needed] |
| Platte Canyon High School shooting |
Bailey, Colorado |
September 27 |
2006 |
2[citation needed] |
| Weston High School shooting |
Cazenovia, Wisconsin |
September 29 |
2006 |
2[citation needed] |
| Amish school shooting |
Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania |
October 2 |
2006 |
6[citation needed] |
| Henry Foss High School shooting |
Tacoma, Washington |
January 3 |
2007 |
1[citation needed] |
| Herbert Henry Dow High School |
Midland, Michigan |
March 8 |
2007 |
1[citation needed] |
| University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Greensboro, North Carolina |
March 24 |
2007 |
0 The victim, Stephen Cobb, was shot by Brian Patrick Martin when an argument about a potential drug deal that went bad.[63] |
| University of Washington shooting |
Seattle, Washington |
April 2 |
2007 |
2[citation needed] |
| Virginia Tech massacre |
Blacksburg, Virginia |
April 16 |
2007 |
32[citation needed] |
| Delaware State University shooting |
Dover, Delaware |
September 21 |
2007 |
1[citation needed] |
| SuccessTech Academy shooting |
Cleveland, Ohio |
October 10 |
2007 |
1[citation needed] |
| Louisiana Technical College shooting |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
February 8 |
2008 |
3[citation needed] |
| Mitchell High School shooting |
Memphis, Tennessee |
February 11 |
2008 |
0[citation needed] |
| E.O. Green School shooting |
Oxnard, California |
February 12 |
2008 |
1[citation needed] |
| Northern Illinois University massacre |
DeKalb, Illinois |
February 14 |
2008 |
6[citation needed] |
| Davidson High School Shooting |
Mobile, Alabama |
March 9 |
2008 |
1[citation needed] |
| Central High School shooting |
Knoxville, Tennessee |
August 21 |
2008 |
1[citation needed] |
| Henry Ford High School shooting |
Detroit, Michigan |
October 16 |
2008 |
1[citation needed] |
| 2008 University of Central Arkansas shootings |
Conway, Arkansas |
October 27 |
2008 |
2[citation needed] |
| Dillard High School shooting |
Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
November 12 |
2008 |
1[citation needed] |
| Henry Ford Community College shooting |
Dearborn, Michigan |
April 10 |
2009 |
2[citation needed] |
| Hampton University |
Hampton, Virginia |
April 26 |
2009 |
0[citation needed] |
| Covina High School shooting |
Covina, California |
April 30 |
2009 |
0[64] |
| Wesleyan University1 |
Middletown, Connecticut |
May 1 |
2009 |
1 |
| Canandaigua Academy shooting |
Canandaigua, New York |
May 5 |
2009 |
1[citation needed] |
| Harvard University |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
May 18 |
2009 |
1 Justin Cosby, 21, was shot sometime before 5 p.m. Monday in J-Entry of Kirkland House. The Harvard University Police responded at approximately 4:48 p.m., and Cosby was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he died [65] |
| Larose-Cut Off Middle School shooting |
Larose, Louisiana |
May 18 |
2009 |
1[citation needed] |
| Skyline College shooting |
San Bruno, California |
September 2 |
2009 |
0[citation needed] |
| Atlanta University Center |
Atlanta, Georgia |
September 3 |
2009 |
1 Sophomore Jasmine Lynn was shot around 12:30 a.m. Thursday September 3, 2009 on James P. Brawley Drive in the Atlanta University Center, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office.[66] |
| Deer Valley High School shooting |
Antioch, California |
September 16 |
2009 |
0[citation needed] |
| Northern Virginia Community College |
Woodbridge, Virginia |
December 8 |
2009 |
0[citation needed] |
| Discovery Middle School |
Madison, Alabama |
February 5 |
2010 |
1[67] |
| University of Alabama in Huntsville |
Huntsville, Alabama |
February 12 |
2010 |
3[68] |
| Deer Creek Middle School |
Littleton, Colorado |
February 23 |
2010 |
0[69] |
| Birney Elementary School |
Tacoma, Washington |
February 26 |
2010 |
1[70] |
| Ohio State University |
Columbus, Ohio |
March 9 |
2010 |
2[71] |
| Belleville Township HS East |
Belleville, Illinois |
August 17 |
2010 |
1[72] |
| University of Texas at Austin |
Austin, Texas |
September 28 |
2010 |
1[73] |
| Alisal High School |
Salinas, California |
October 1 |
2010 |
1[74][75] |
| Mid-Atlantic Christian University |
Elizabeth City, North Carolina |
October 3 |
2010 |
1[76] |
| Kelly Elementary School |
Carlsbad, California |
October 8 |
2010 |
2 (wounded)[77][78] |
| Marinette High School |
Marinette, Wisconsin |
November 29 |
2010 |
1[79] |
| Millard South High School shooting |
Omaha, Nebraska, United States |
January 5 |
2011 |
2[80] |
| Martinsville West Middle School |
Martinsville, Indiana |
March 25 |
2011 |
0[81] |
| Worthing High School |
Houston, Texas |
March 30 |
2011 |
1[82] |
| Ross Elementary School |
Houston, Texas |
April 19 |
2011 |
0[83] |
| San Jose State University |
San Jose, California |
May 10 |
2011 |
3[84] |
| Pearl City Middle School |
Pearl City, Hawaii |
May 23 |
2011 |
1[85] |
| Cape Fear High School shooting |
Fayetteville, North Carolina |
October 24 |
2011 |
0[86] |
| 2011 Virginia Tech shooting |
Blacksburg, Virginia |
December 8 |
2011 |
2 [87] |
| Walpole Elementary School |
Walpole, New Hampshire |
February 10 |
2012 |
1 (injury) [88] |
| Chardon High School shooting |
Chardon, Ohio |
February 27 |
2012 |
3[citation needed] |
| Oikos University shooting |
Oakland, California |
April 2 |
2012 |
7[citation needed] |
| Perry Hall High School |
Perry Hall, Maryland |
August 27 |
2012 |
1 (injury)[citation needed] |
| Normal Community High School |
Normal, Illinois |
September 7 |
2012 |
0[citation needed] |
| Stillwater Junior High School |
Stillwater, Oklahoma |
September 26 |
2012 |
1 (suicide)[citation needed] |
| Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting |
Newtown, Connecticut |
December 14 |
2012 |
27 |
60 in 30 years?
