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A shooting a week in American schools
In the year and a half since the mass-murder shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012, there have been another 74 school shootings in the United States. That’s an average of at least one shooting every week. The most recent was the June 10 shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Ore., which left one student, as well as the shooter, dead.
Since Sandy Hook:
Number of school shootings 74
Number of people killed in school shootings 45
Number of shootings at colleges 35
Number of shootings at K-12 schools 39
Number of school shootings in 2013 37
Number of school shootings so far in 2014 (through June 10) 37
Source: Everytown for Gun Safety, www.everytown.org
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