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More than one school shooting in the U.S. for each week school is in session — this is the new normal. Seventy-four — that's the number of shootings that have occurred at U.S. schools and colleges since December 14, 2012, according to gun reform group Everytown for Gun Safety.
On that day 20-year-old Adam Lanza gunned down 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Between December 2012 and February this year alone there were at least 44 school shootings. It's a nationwide problem.
Roughly three-quarters of these resulted in least one homicide death. With shootings in which we know from where the shooter got the gun, three-quarters of the weapons were taken from home.
Lamenting the reality that his administration has been able to do exactly nothing on gun reform, President Obama said this to a web forum this week: "This is not acceptable, this is not normal ... we're the only developed country on Earth where this happens and it happens now once a week and it's a one-day story."
For the purposes of its report, Everytown defines school shootings as incidents in which "a firearm was discharged inside a school building or on school or campus grounds, as documented in publicly reported news accounts," and "includes assaults, homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings."
The frequency of massacres, suicides and drive-bys by students and deranged members of the public is shocking. Generally, there appears to be an increase in the rate of mass shootings (defined by the FBI as gun attacks involving four or more victims) when gang-related violence and armed robberies are excluded. Moreover, even if long-term trends show the numbers of such killings holds stable over time, it
