Details are slowly emerging in the aftermath of this morning’s shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale—in that we’ve learned, so far, that one student was shot and killed and that the shooter also is dead. As for whether anyone else was injured or whether the shooter also was a student? Officially unknown.
But here’s something else that’s pretty empirical: Since a gunman murdered 20 children in 2012’s horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, gun safety advocates at Everytown USA have tracked some 73 other school shootings over the following year and half. And Reynolds High School just became number 74 on their list.
That’s almost one every week. And this list only includes shootings at schools and universities, and probably undercounts the real total, because it’s cobbled from media reports. NPR reported in January, meanwhile, that mass shootings everywhere are on the rise. We could talk about bulletproof blankets. Or sensible gun laws.
What is more alarming is that schools are out for 2-3 months in the summer and some for a month around the holidays. This number could be higher.
Maybe if we didn’t report shootings so superfluously people who shoot wouldn’t think they’d be glorified. Also we should focus on the health of people not the restrictions of guns. Even if we didn’t have guns there would be mass stabbings.
Staff schools. That is the first thing to be done. There are TWO counselors for 700 students at the school I work at. There are not enough staff members to get to know our students and spot psychological needs before it is TOO LATE.
Staff our schools.
You have to remember there have always been lots of guns in this country. It’s just in the last 10 years that shooting up each other has become an American past time.
The question is what is it about our society that is causing this?
There has been some sort of titanic shift in our cultural norm.
This is everyday stuff now.
The right to bear arms is not something that can be given away, ever.
PROBLEM IS OUR GUNS CAN’T HAVE OTHER GUNS ATTACHED TO THEM AND SHOOT SMALLER GUNS BECAUSE OBAMA
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/
I think it’s worth noting that this list of “school shootings” is really a list of gun crimes that occurred on a school campus and not just Columbine-style mass shootings. When I first saw the list, I thought, “How can there be that many?” so I started looking them up, and many are along the lines of, “some kid got mad at someone and shot him.” Don’t get me wrong – that’s terrible that so many crimes with guns happen. But the fact that it happened on a university campus is mostly irrelevant, and calling it a “school shooting” is misleading.
Calling a kid shooting another kid at a school a “school shooting” is misleading? Oh, please, tell us more.
We currently live in the least violent time on the planet. 500 years ago 15% of people meet violent deaths. Today that number is 2%. But to say there would be made stabbings if the where more thorough gun laws and background checks is ridiculous. The fact is guns make horrible, permanent decisions easier to make and instant. There are ways to reduce gun violence, but not by doing nothing. In a nation full of points of both shame and pride, our gun violence situation appears to be secured in the former.
Shit I got 51 dislikes! That’s a new record!
This will finally come to an end when everyone has someone close to them get randomly murdered by a lunatic with a gun.
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
Very easily with guns. Even more easily when we make little to no effort to keep the guns out of the hands of people that kill people with guns.
Why us it that they only started following shootings after 2012. I bet that if thwy look back over the years the numbers havent risen that much, just how much TV time we give them. I have not heared of 90% of thosw shootings.
And its not the gun that needs controled, guns dont kill people.people kill people. We need to imporve mental healrh in our communities. And teach our children that violence is not the way to solve problem.
And schools need to teach this better, and help our children to understand this also.
The answer is clear, we have to enact strict new gun laws, and enforce them with the biggest guns possible …
My vote is brutal public torture punishment on national television for any wacko dumb enough to commit such a heinous crime. See how long the little shits want their moment in the sun after a few of em are drawn and quartered on national television. (Clearly not the answer but it would feel good to take a stronger stance as a society instead of the current back and forth debate over who what and why. Sometimes you just gotta call it like it is and say #*%@ those people…)
And 74 times the law was broken when the gunman entered a gun free zone. More gun laws are not going to stop this madness.
Blame the news organizations for giving these shootings too much hype. Also, notice most shooters are in their low 20’s in age. Guess what’s changed between the 20 year old and us older people. We got a smack down from our parents if we messed up. Now the military is stress free, kids can divorce parents and we sure as hell can’t smack them into next week when they tell us to f off. It’s our society corroding.
Sensible gun laws? Guns have been around for hundreds of years, stop being silly and trying to distract folks from the true cause of this, which is NOT gun control laws. Don’t forget the constitution friends…
cmon now.
Shit, what good are the laws we have now? Nothing! Human civilization is a failure!
People break laws. That doesn’t make them ineffective, asshole.
A lot of these shootings didn’t take place on campus, during school hours, or even with people that belonged to said schools. These numbers are cooked. It’s at least half this.
Guns equate to power in the immature or tortured mind. We need better screening to purchase guns. We need mandatory education on guns. Some of this should prevent children from getting guns. As a society we also need to restrict violence that children can see daily on TV, in the news and in their games. Children learn by example. We need to unite as a country and get the politics out of guns, we need to get serious about our children knowing guns are not the way to handle disputes.
round up all the bullies and send them to camps where they can’t physically & mentally torment victims anymore. that goes for all you cyber bullies out there too!
“Sensible gun laws? Yeah right! Then it’ll just be criminals with guns!” – guy that hasn’t ever heard of any other first-world country
By the way: gunpolicy.org has rundowns of the various restrictions by nation, along with annual murder rates and gun murder rates.
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