January 2014 Chain Of School and Theater Attacks

January 2014 Chain Of School and Theater Attacks

Reuters:  January 25, 2014 The shooting was the latest in a rash of gun attacks at schools across the United States. On Tuesday, a male student was shot and stabbed to death in a classroom at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The day before, a student was shot and critically wounded outside an athletic center at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. Last week, there were shootings of two students at a high school in Philadelphia, one at a high school in Georgia and two at a middle school in New Mexico.



January 23, 2013 thinkprogress three weeks into the new year, statistics suggest that the problem could actually be worsening. Though the sample size is far too small to draw any definitive conclusions, 2014 is off to a deadly start: in the first 14 school days of the year, there have been at least 7 school shootings. For sake of comparison, there were 28 school shootings in all of 2013, according to gun violence prevention group Moms Demand Action. Purdue University is the most recent, when a 23 year old teaching assistant fired four shots inside a campus building on Tuesday, killing a 21 year old senior. One day earlier, a student was hospitalized after being shot near the athletic center on the campus of Widener University in Pennsylvania. And last week, there were at least three other school shootings, resulting in the hospitalization of five students between the ages of 12 and 18.

That number could have been even higher were it not for several near-misses. An eighth grader was arrested in Georgia last week after he brought a gun to school on consecutive days and robbed a classmate. On Tuesday, Portland police rushed to an area high school after a student was reportedly showing off his gun to a fellow classmate during lunch. And early on Wednesday four teenagers were arrested after they were seen pointing a gun at a school bus in Norfolk, Virginia.

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January 23, 2014 at 4:48 pm#21490REPLY

David K. Sutton

Keymaster

Obviously this could just be a statistical anomaly, but tell that to the victims. Statistical anomaly or not, this is par for the course when it comes to America’s obsessive gun culture.