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School Violence/Shootings

 

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             In a survey done by Louis Harris and Associates INC. in 1993 on types of violence in metropolitan schools there were 21,554,092 students who reported violence on them. Violence is a big deal in schools lately, but another problem that is not weird to see is school shootings. (Louis and Associates).
             The first recorded school shooting was May 18, 1927, Bath, Michigan. Forty people were killed when farmer Andrew Kehoe, angry over his tax bill, set off dynamite at the local school. As parents and town folks rushed towards the blast, Kehoe drove back into the schoolyard. He motioned school superintendent Emory Huyck over to his car, spoke to him briefly, and then aimed a shot from his gun into the back seat of his car, setting off more dynamite. By the time the roar from the two explosions faded, 38 children, the town's postmaster, a retired farmer, the superintendent, two teachers and Kehoe himself were dead. The body of Kehoe's wife was found at their home where Kehoe apparently killed her the morning of the blast. (This information on Kehoe and the first school shooting was obtained from the Internet under school shooting). .
             Since February 2, 1996 till February 29, 200 there has 16 documented school shootings. The school shooting must people are familiar with would be the shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. This school shooting was brought out by Eric Harris who was eighteen and Dylan Klebold who was seventeen. These shooters were responsible for the nations deadliest school shooting. They killed fifteen students (including themselves) and one teacher. There were twenty-three others wounded in the shooting. The two shooters planned for a year on killing over five hundred people and blowing up their school. This school shooting last around an hour before they turned the guns on themselves and ending the rampage. There were many other school shootings besides this one I will show you.


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