But it seems long ago, part of an America that no longer exists.

when is enough enough NRA!

Then MAYBE they will see the light.

is a huge MAYBE.

And the Boner just said that he didn't know what to call the Las Vegas incident, when pressed if it was "domestic terrorism".

Fucked up.

K&R

The first recorded shooting death in a U.S. school was in 1864
School shooting events m,ore recently:
1940s-13
1950s-22
1960s-17
1970s-24
1980s-32
1990s-36
2000s-47
2010-14-98

Even allowing for better reporting, changing definitions (some of these were hunting accidents or suicides on a school's property) it is clear that shootings are growing over the last half century and exponentially recently. In the past the pattern has been a shooting, followed by several copycat events the a period of no shootings. In the last decade and a half, there has been no interruption of the cycle.

Clearly guns are an issue (being a required factor to have a 'shooting') yet the modern gun control i.e. GCA of 1968, has not seemed to have helped either. Also it appears, data is less easy to find, that other forms of violence on school property is also increasing greatly.

Clearly to combat this better controls are in order UBC, storage requirements, training are in order to reduce the most lethal method of violence. But at the same time we must realize that is only treating a symptom. The violence is the disease. Until we can change the attitude that it is acceptable to lash out violently our schools will remain dangerous places.

Idiotic zero tolerance policies that stop kids from handling things on their own.

In the decade 2000 to 2009 there were, according to the chart, 47 school shootings.

In the four years 2010 to 2014 there have been 98. Roughly double the number in less than half the time, or roughly a four fold increase.

You think the US population has quadrupled in four years?

"Not bad"?

And what precisely does "handling things on their own" mean, anyway?

I was looking at the overall trend. As for handling things, I was referring to the zero tolerance policies that prevent kids from defending and dealing with bullies themselves.

The Clackamas shooting was just a few days before Sandy Hook, and got conveniently forgotten after the horror of Sandy Hook happened later in the week.

Also, has anyone else noticed that both shootings in Oregon happened on the second Tuesday of the month? I noticed that because we had the same meeting scheduled on that day of the month both days. I wonder if that was a coincidence, or like with other shootings if the shooter picked his date intentionally for some oddball reason.

They're trying to make every instance appear to be random violence, like Newtown.
According to CNN, "CNN determined that 15 of the incidents Everytown included were situations similar to the violence in Newtown or Oregon -- a minor or adult actively shooting inside or near a school. That works out to about one such shooting every five weeks, a startling figure in its own right.
Some of the other incidents on Everytown's list included personal arguments, accidents and alleged gang activities and drug deals."

So many of these wouldve happened anyway, but they just happened to be at a school. They should all go to jail regardless, but I just dont like when facts are manipulated to appear to be something else
Go ahead now, let me have it.