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Eugene

(62,646 posts)
Sun Dec 9, 2018, 11:50 AM Dec 2018

2018 is worst year on record for gun violence in schools, data shows

Source: The Guardian

2018 is worst year on record for gun violence in schools, data shows

Research cited by Sandy Hook Promise counted 94 incidents, a near 60% increase on the previous high, 59, set in 2006

Jamiles Lartey
Sun 9 Dec 2018 06.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 9 Dec 2018 16.31 GMT

This year has been by far the worst on record for gun violence in schools, the advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise said, citing research by the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS).

The NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security counted 94 school shooting incidents in 2018, a near 60% increase on the previous high, 59, an unwanted record set in 2006.

The NPS database goes back to 1970 and documents any instance in which a gun is “brandished, is fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason”, regardless of the number of victims or the day of the week.

In 2018, high-profile attacks in Parkland, Florida and Santa Fe, Texas, have intensified a national conversation about gun violence in schools.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/09/sandy-hook-promise-gun-violence-school-shooting-report-2018
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2018 is worst year on record for gun violence in schools, data shows (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2018 OP
Thanks for posting billh58 Dec 2018 #1

billh58

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Sun Dec 9, 2018, 12:12 PM
Dec 2018

this commentary on our very serious national gun culture problem. The right-wing gun lobby, and their apologists and cold-dead-hand absolutists, own the epidemic carnage on our streets and in our schools as they call for even more guns to be placed in more dangerous hands. Their "guns for everyone, everywhere" NRA campaign is nothing less than the promotion and support of domestic terrorism.

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