The new school year in the USA has barely begun, but there has already been a mass shooting at a high school in the state of Georgia, in which two students and two teachers lost their lives, and eight students and one teacher were injured. The 14-year-old shooter was arrested.
David Reedman, who compiles a database of school shootings K-12 School Shooting Databasefor the news agency Reuters said that this was the first pre-planned school shooting in the fall semester. On the other hand, the magazine Education Week the survey made shows that this was the 23rd shooting in US schools in 2024. This year, 11 people have lost their lives and 38 have been injured in school shootings in the United States.
Senior US officials have once again expressed their dismay at the failure to achieve a ban on the use of semi-automatic assault weapons and large cartridges.
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Statistics show that the United States has suffered fewer mass shootings this year than last year, when 217 people lost their lives in 42 mass shootings, making it the deadliest year on record for mass shootings. A collaborative database Associated Press and USA Today together with Northeastern Universityshows that before Wednesday’s shooting in Georgia, there had been 29 fatal mass shootings in the United States this year, in which 127 people lost their lives. According to this database and also the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) definition, a fatal mass shooting is an incident in which four or more people, not including the killer, have lost their lives within a 24-hour period.
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2024-09-06 17:00:30