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Perpetrators of school shootings tend to be male and have access to a loaded firearm. They are more likely than their peers to suffer from a mental illness (anxiety, depression, psychopathy), to have had a history of violence or delinquency, to have experienced a traumatic event in their childhood, [10] and to report having been bullied by their peers. [11]
28 [n 1] 2 30: Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed twenty-six people and himself. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking four of her guns and driving to the school, where he killed 20 first-grade children aged six and seven along with six adults, including four teachers, the principal, and ...
Vladislav Roslyakov killed 20 people with a shotgun in the Kerch Polytechnic College massacre. A school shooting is an armed attack at an educational institution, such as a primary school, secondary school, high school or university, involving the use of a firearm. Many school shootings are also categorized as mass shootings due to multiple casualties. The phenomenon is most widespread in the ...
School shootings have been on the rise, with more than 600 school shootings in the U.S. since 2009. This number, according to a CNN database , is way larger compared to other countries and it is a ...
School shootings are a particularly American phenomenon — as the researchers behind the study note, there were 44 such shootings between 1966 and 2008, compared with just seven in all of Europe.
School shootings have become a near-daily occurrence in the United States, with 322 of them this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. That is the second highest annual total since ...
According to the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSSHS), a physical fight “occurs when two students of about the same strength or power choose to fight each other” and therefore is a form of physical violence between peers. [2] The Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) does not refer specifically to school-related ...
At the time, it was the deadliest shooting at a high school in American history. [2] The shooting was the most covered news story of 1999, and third most followed by the American public of the entire decade, surpassing the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. in a plane crash and the Kosovo War. [3]