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The Parkland high school shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on February 14, 2018, when 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, part of the Miami metropolitan area, Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people [note 2] and injuring 17 others.
X González (born Emma González; November 11, 1999) is an American activist and advocate for gun control. [4] [5] [6] In 2018, they survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, [7] the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, and, in response, co-founded the gun-control advocacy group Never Again MSD.
After being suspended for refusing to take off his hat while at school, 13-year-old student Floyd Warmsley pulled out a firearm at Portland Junior High School, shooting and wounding the 53-year-old school secretary Lynn Haddad and killing 36-year-old janitor David Bangston. [309] [310] 1986 ; January 29, 1986: Baltimore, Maryland: 1 0 1
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is a public high school in Parkland, Florida, United States.Established in 1990 as part of the Broward County Public Schools district and named after the writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas, it was the only public high school in Parkland, serving almost the entire city as well as a small section of neighboring Coral Springs.
In 2018, protests against gun violence in the United States increased after a series of mass shootings, most notably at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14 that year. An organized protest in the form of a national school walkout occurred on March 14. March for Our Lives was held on March 24. Another major demonstration ...
2024 Apalachee High School shooting: Georgia State Police responded to a school shooting at the Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia. Two teachers and two students were killed, while seven others were injured. A suspect, 14-year-old student Colt Gray, was taken into custody. [57] [58] February 13, 2023: East Lansing, Michigan
Widespread mass protest became a distinct characteristic of the late 20th and early 21st century American civic engagement, with the rate of mass protests rising exponentially since the mid 2010s thanks in part to the sudden and widespread availability of smartphones as well as the social media revolution allowing instant and widespread ...
The city where the school shooting occurred, Parkland, also had a march. [262] Similar marches were also held in northeast Florida in Jacksonville, Fernandina Beach, and Saint Augustine. [263] A rally in Jacksonville had a turnout of over 1,000 people in Hemming Park.