Another shooting at a school has torn apart a community, this time in Michigan, where a 15-year-old sophomore is said to have opened fire on Tuesday, killing three students, injuring three students. loved seven other people and a teacher. It was the latest shooting in what has been called an “epidemic” of gun violence across the United States; There have been at least 28 school shootings in 2021.
The coronavirus pandemic – which has kept schools closed for much of 2020 and into 2021 – may have disrupted the trend of school shootings over the past decade. But experts have also said that gun violence on the whole has increased during the pandemic, and impact children like never before.
Deadly shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, a suburb about 35 miles north of Detroit, marking the 651st incident this year in which at least four people have been shot, fatal or not, by Gun Violence Archive, tracking mass shootings.
How many school shootings will there be in 2021?
There have been 28 school shootings this year, according to Education Week, which tracks school shootings, including any gun-related injuries or deaths.
Of those, 20 have occurred since August when many students returned to face-to-face classes for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. There are 10 recorded mass shootings in 2020.
That dropout should not be interpreted to mean “safer” schools,” noted Education Week: “Instead, the definition of school safety changed as learning entered the home in ways that it was never there before. “
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How many people have died in school shootings this year?
At least nine people have been killed in school shootings this year, including eight children, according to Education Week. An additional 46 people were injured.
The most recent death from a school shooting before Tuesday was in September, when a North Carolina high school student was shot at the school and died of his injuries at the hospital, according to the tracking company. by Education Week.
Where did the school shootings happen in 2021?
School shootings have occurred in 19 states in 2021 – with the highest number (four) occurring in Texas, according to the tracker. Tuesday’s shooting was the largest on record of the year.
School shooting deaths have also occurred in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Delaware, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, has also tracked “schoolyard shootings” and recorded 28 deaths in 2021.
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