Over 74 Shootings In Last 20 Months
August 27, 2014 | Security
Since the December 2012 shooting in Newtown, CT, there have been at least 74 school shootings in the USA.
This is one of the main findings included in a recent report by Everytown, a gun control advocacy group.
The latest school violence-related incident took place August 19, 2014, when police reported that two South Pasadena, High School students (Pasadena, CA) plotted to kill three staffers and as many students as possible in a mass shooting plot.
The report’s other main findings were:
- In the first six weeks of 2014 alone, there were 13 school shootings including one eight-day period in which there were four shootings in K-12 schools.
- These school shootings resulted in 28 deaths and 37 non-fatal gunshot injuries. In 49 percent of these incidents at least one person died.
- Of the K-12 school shootings in which the shooter’s age was known, 70 percent (20 of 28 incidents) were perpetrated by minors.
- Among those shootings where it was possible to determine the source of the firearm, three-quarters of the shooters obtained their guns from home.
- In 16 cases — more than a third of all incidents — at least one person was shot after a schoolyard argument or confrontation escalated and a gun was at hand.
- The shooters ranged from 5 to 53 years of age.
The K-12 school system is the one that most Americans are familiar with. It is comprised of 13 grades (kindergarten-12th grade), and K-12 schools are found in the US, Canada, Britain, and some parts of Europe.
Full report download here.
