The School Shootings You Didn’t Hear About—One Every Two Weeks Since Newtown

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The School Shootings You Didn’t Hear About—One Every Two Weeks Since Newtown

By Brandy Zadrozny at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/12/the-school-shootings-you-didn-t-hear-about-one-every-two-weeks-since-newtown.html

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In the year since 20 first-graders were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary, another school shooting has taken place in America every two weeks on average.

These events aren’t necessarily the types of tragedies that come to mind when one thinks of “school shootings”—madmen in fatigues roaming school hallways, strapped with automatic-style guns, murdering indiscriminately—nor do they receive the media attention of such mass shootings. But they can be similarly traumatizing for students and staff, and they have led to at least 24 injuries and 17 deaths over the past year, The Daily Beast has found.*

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Our count includes shootings that resulted in no fatalities as well as those where the only victim was the shooter, such as the case of 17-year-old Joseph Poynter, a junior at La Salle High School in Cincinnati, who in April brought a gun from home and “placed it to his right temple and discharged one round into his head” in front of a classroom full of students, according to police reports.

Two thirds of these shootings took place on high school and college campuses. The remainder took place in middle schools or elementary schools, like the one in which Adam Lanza killed 20 students, six adults, and then himself a year ago this week. The shootings occurred in 15 states across the country, with the highest concentration in Florida (five) and Georgia (three).


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[billh58]

1. You know that

you are going to hurt the sensibilities of the Gungeoneers who are celebrating their perceived victory over gun control on the anniversary of Sandy Hook don't you?

[applegrove]

2. Why I'm thankfull we have this Group where we can talk unmolested.

[CTyankee]

5. It is a sad commentary on DU that we have to be so goddamn thankful not to be

molested!

Geez! C'mon folks! This is a PROGRESSIVE site, not a republican one. Let's get some spine and protest this sh*t. We shouldn't be "thankful" we have a little space to talk about gun violence! We should be exultant that our ideas are what they are on gun control, those of 90% of the American people!

[billh58]

6. I agree that this

is a Progressive site, but a right-wing swamp has been tolerated for years on DU. This safe haven Group was formed for that very reason, and it has made a big difference in countering the lies and misinformation of the small, but very vocal, minority of rabid NRA apologists that dwell in that swamp.

[Tx4obama]

3. There have been at least 27 school shootings in the year since Newtown

There have been 27 school shootings in the year since Newtown

Text and graphics here: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/12/13/3026681/newtown-year-anniversary/

[Hoyt]

4. Price we pay so gun fanciers and profiteers are awash in gunz.