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Comprehensive, independent database of +3,100 K-12 school shootings since 1966. For in-depth analysis, podcast, & reports: https://t.co/NoJccoW0Yy

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K-12 School Shooting Database
2 years
Newest Freakononics episode features the founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database David Riedman. “The causal chain leading up to a school shooting has dozens of events, and every single one of them needs to be a failure for the shooting to occur.”
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@K12ssdb
K-12 School Shooting Database
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Unlike cars and other consumer products, the government does not test, inspect, and certify the safety of firearms before these products can be sold to gun customers. Also unlike cars, guns don't have annual state inspections to confirm safety and maintain registration.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
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Ceres Police (CA) confirmed the accidental shooting by the SRO at Blaker-Kinser Junior High was a Sig Sauer P320. Police determined the trigger was not pulled when the officer's gun fired outside the school and struck her in the leg.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
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Love Island can help prevent school shootings. This viral reality TV show is a case study in social exclusion, in-group/out-group conflicts, emotional regulation, and the power of personal narratives.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
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Instead of praying, most of us know that natural disasters, school shootings, terrorist attacks, pandemics, and all kinds of risks can be mitigated or prevented with science, research, and public funding for proactive measures.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
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Kids can’t vote and kids die when politicians shape their policies based on money from wealthy donors and special interest groups (like the gun lobby or protecting Musk’s business empire) instead of public safety.
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21 students and teachers were murdered in Uvalde because Texas doesn’t have a red flag law or fund prevention of mass shootings. 21 children drowned at Camp Mystic (11 girls and one counselor still missing) because they didn’t get a flood warning. Same story, different plot.
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@K12ssdb
K-12 School Shooting Database
21 days
RT @adcock_brett: Good reminder that we need to prevent these:
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K-12 School Shooting Database
1 month
Similarities of Austria to US school shootings:.- Surprise attack during morning classes .- Committed by a former student with direct connection.- Long gun and handgun used were legally purchased.- Students and staff were the primary targets.- Shooter committed suicide
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K-12 School Shooting Database
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Ten people have died following a shooting at a secondary school in the Austrian city of Graz. Students, at least one adult and the suspected gunman are among the dead, with several others seriously injured. The shooting happened at the Dreierschützengasse high school.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
2 months
14- and 15-year-old student were plotting to kill their parents and commit a Columbine-style school shooting and bombing at Evergreen Institute in the rural Cottonwood, CA (pop. 7,100). They intended to kill 100 students (nearly everyone at their 140 student rural k-12 school).
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K-12 School Shooting Database
2 months
Study in journal Marketing Science finds that mass shootings cause ~$27 billion in annual lost revenue for U.S. retailers. Retailers located near the scene of a mass shooting suffer an average 19% drop in revenue, with measurable economic disruption extending up to 1.25 miles.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
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A teen was killed and another teen was wounded when 38 shots were fired at them on the basketball court of Logan Elementary in Philadelphia at 6pm last night. 18-year-old who died at the scene was struck multiple times in head and chest. Two shooters fled before police arrived.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
2 months
Back to School Shootings Ep 41. Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, is a board-certified emergency physician in a Houston trauma center, an associate professor at Baylor College of Medicine, and serves as the Medical Editor-in-Chief of ACEP Now, the Official Voice of Emergency Medicine.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
2 months
Ep 41. ER doctor Cedric Dark explains how to cure the gun epidemic. Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, is a board-certified emergency physician practicing in a Houston, Texas trauma center and an associate professor at Baylor College of Medicine.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
2 months
Jeffrey Rupnow, father of 15-year-old girl who opened fire inside Abundant Life Christian School in December, has been charged with two counts of providing a dangerous weapon to a person under 18. He told his daughter the gun safe combo before she shot 8 people at her school.
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Philly police officer is in critically condition after being shot during a large fight outside Overbrook High at dismissal. During the fight, a 30-year-old man fired a AR-style pistol. A rifle caliber round ricocheted off the ground and stuck under an officer's vest.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
2 months
The Trump administration has removed a memorial honoring victims of gun violence from the main atrium of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, taking down about 120 portraits hung during the Biden administration.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
2 months
A California man who exchanged messages with a 15-year-old girl who fatally shot two people at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, WI has been barred from owning or possessing firearms for three years. He is not charged with any other crimes related to the attack.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
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A 32-year-old Wisconsin man was arrested with a loaded gun at Putnam Heights Elementary. He applied for employment with the school district and was upset because he was not hired. He attempted to enter the school. Held on $10,000 bond for firearm in a gun free school zone.
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K-12 School Shooting Database
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Memphis police are looking for information after 4 masked gunmen killed two students outside Booker T. Washington High at dismissal on Thursday. One student was killed 'execution style'. Shooters fled before police arrived. Call CrimeStoppers at 901-528-CASH
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