SOME HISTORY OF SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

I have written a piece on Probabilities And School Shootings:  http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2018/02/probabilities-and-school-shootings-2013.html

Though I hope the school children have success in their pleadings for action on gun control,  Some comfort can be taken thinking about the probability of school shootings.  In my day, I don't recall ever hearing about a school shooting so I looked up history of school shootings..

The following I obtained from the records at the List Of School  Shootings in Wikipedia: :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States

In my days at school, there were some shooting but they seemed to be aimed at individual principlals, teachers and other staff.

The modern age of mass murder in schools and similar gatherings was shooting at the University of Texas in 1966, a massacre. where 17 were killed, 31 injured.  This was followed in 1968 by the South Carolina State University massacre shooting where 3 were killed and 27 injured.. (I don't remember this SC incident but do recall the Texas shooting)

The next big one was at Jackson State, Jackson, Mississippi. in 1970 where 2 were killed and 12 injured.  I'll skip some incidents, but in 1989, 6 were killed and 32 injured in the Stockton, California, schoolyard killing.

Several mass shootings occcurred in 1998 such as the West Side Middle School shooting in Arkansas where 5 were killed and 10 wounded.  Follwoing was the shooting at the Thurston, High School, in Springfield, Oregon, 4 were killed and 23 wounded.  This preceded the  1999 Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado shooting 15 killed and 21 injured.

In 2007 there was, of course, the famous shooting at Virginia Tech, virginia, where 33 were kiled and 23 injured.  Less well known was the 2008 shooting at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois with 6 killed and 21 injured.

A shooting that received a lot of note was at Newtown, CT, at Snadyhook elementary School where 28 were killed and 2 injured.  Another mass shooting was at Umpqua Community College where 10 died and 9 were injured. 

The pace may be picking up.

Already some shootings are not getting much notice such as the Novembeer 2017 shooting at  Rancho Tehama Elementary School and environs where 6 were killed and 18 injured in  followed by Marshall County High School  shooting in January 2018 with 2 killed and 18 wounded.

Then in February of 2018, at Parkland, Florida, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, 17 were killed and 14 injured leading to mass demonstrations for some gun control.  A bill has passed the legislatures in Florida and the governor has signed it.  The NRA, however, is suing Florida for raising the age of buying long guns to 21, the same age as for pistoles  I can't see how the NRA can win this suit but we will see.

In between these mass shootings, there was a sprinkling of shooting where 1 person was killed and/or injured, etc..