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“	All the other kids with the pumped up kicks You'd better run, better run Outrun my gun All the other kids with the pumped up kicks You'd better run, better run Faster than my bullet	„
	~ Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People, a song about school shootings.

A school shooting is an attack on an educational institution, most commonly a school or university, using one or more firearm.

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Columbine shooters on Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold (right) on CCTV.

School shootings are especially common in the United States, but they can occur in other countries as well. It manifests as a student simply shooting a classmate or teacher in revenge to large scale bombings and/or mass shootings.

The shooter(s) often commits suicide after they are finished with their attack, although some have surrendered to or been killed by police. Suicidal school shooters typically made martyrdom videos; typically explaining their act(s) and/or ranting about bullies.

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Seung-Hui Cho shoots up Virginia Tech - News

School shootings have became much more common in the 21st Century.

History

While school shootings did occasionally occur before the 20th century, the first incident of what is today widely considered a school shooting (in which a current or former student of a school perpetrates an act of gun violence at an educational institution) is thought to be the University of Texas Tower shooting of 1966. The perpetrator, Charles Whitman, was a student of architectural engineering at the university, and killed 31 people. This incident was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman at the time.

Though there were several school shootings in the 70's and 80's, few of these resulted in multiple deaths. Some that did, including the CSU, Fullerton massacre and the Stockton schoolyard massacre were perpetrated by adults who either had never attended the institutions they attacked, or had passed out/dropped out long ago.

The 90's saw a surge in school shootings. The archetype of the school shooter as an angry, alienated young person (young man, mostly) was established in this decades. School shooters sought to emulate former shooters by wearing the same clothes (mainly black trench coats) as them, and, in some cases, using the same weapons (pipe bombs/ specific guns). The most tragic school shooting of this decade, as well as the deadliest High School shooting at the time, was the Columbine High School shooting, in which perpetrators Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured many more, before taking their own lives.

Causes

Bullying (peer victimization, peer pressure, cyberbullying, etc.) which can cause depression and/or personality disorders. For that matter, the shooter may (sometimes also) be a bully themselves. Evidence of the shooter being a bully and/or bullied can often be seen by them taunting their shooting victims.
Revenge against teachers for punishing the shooter unfairly. For that matter, there are cases of adults shooting staff members and/or students for wrongs/percieved wrongs the victim(s) committed against the perpetrator or their friends and/or family.
Mental illness (sometimes without cause)
Misanthropy
Expulsion from the school
Notoriety (wanting to gain widespread recognition for their actions)
Political tension
Xenophobia (targeting specific racial groups out of hatred, usually the belief that Caucasians are superior to all other races)
They have been physically abused at home.
The Copycat Effect (the shooter might have been inspired by previous school shootings and wishing to emulate them)

Examples

A list of various school shootings based on perpetrator's fate.

Perpetrator(s)	School	Date	Fatalities	Injuries	Location	Kill to Wound Ratio (Perpetrator's Death(s) Excluded)	Fate
Dimitrios Pagourtzis	Santa Fe High School	May 18^th, 2018	10	13	Santa Fe, Texas, U.S.	10:13	Arrested; Still awaiting conviction
Nikolas Cruz	Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School	February 14^th, 2018	17	17	Parkland, Florida, U.S.	1:1	Arrested; Still awaiting conviction
Luke Woodham	Pearl High School	October 1^st, 1997	2 (including his mother)	7	Pearl, Mississippi, U.S.	2:7	Life in prison
Charles Whitman	University of Texas	August 1^st, 1966	16	32	Austin, Texas, U.S.	1:2	Killed by Police
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold	Columbine High School	April 20^th, 1999	13	21	Columbine, Colorado, U.S.	13:21	Both Committed Suicide
Seung-Hui Cho	Virginia Tech University	April 16^th, 2007	32	17	Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.	22:29	Suicide
Adam Lanza	Sandy Hook Elementary School	December 14^th, 2012	27 (including his mother)	2	Newtown, Connecticut, U.S.	27:2	Suicide
Tim Kretschmer	Albertville Realschule and Wendlingen shootout	March 11^th, 2009	15	9	Winnenden, Germany	5:3	Suicide
Pekka-Eric Auvinen	Jokela High School	November 7^th, 2007	8	1	Tuusula, Finland	8:1	Suicide
Jeff Weise	Red Lake High School	March 21^st, 2005	9	5	Red Lake, Minnesota, U.S.	9:5	Suicide
TJ Lane	Chardon High School	February 27^th, 2012	3	3	Chardon, Ohio, U.S.	3:3	Life in prison
Brenda Spencer	Cleveland Elementary School	January 29^th, 1979	2	9	San Diego, California, U.S.		Life in prison
Christopher Harper-Mercer	Umpqua Community College	October 1^st, 2015	9	8	Roseburg, Oregon U.S.	2:1	Suicide
Vladislav Roslyakov	Kerch Polytechnic College	October 17^th, 2018	20	70	Kerch, Crimea		Suicide
Barry Loukaitis	Frontier Middle School	February 2^nd, 1996	3	1	Moses Lake, Washington U.S.	3:1	Life in prison
Trystan Andrew Terrell	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	April 30^th, 2019	2	4	Charlotte, North Carolina U.S.	2:4	Arrested; Still awaiting conviction
Steven Kazmierczak	Northern Illinois University	February 14^th, 2008	5	17	DeKalb, Illinois U.S.		Suicide
Kip Kinkel	Thurston High School	May 21^st, 1998	4 (including his parents)	25	Springfield, Oregon U.S.		Life in prison
Robert Steinhäuser	Gutenberg-Gymnasium Secondary School	April 26^th, 2002	16	1	Erfut, Germany		Suicide U.S.
Federico Guevara Elizondo	Colegio Americano del Noreste	January 18^th, 2017	1	3	Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico		Suicide

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 School shootings have became much more common in the 21st Century.
+== History ==
+While school shootings did occasionally occur before the 20th century, the first incident of what is today widely considered a school shooting (in which a current or former student of a school perpetrates an act of gun violence at an educational institution) is thought to be the University of Texas Tower shooting of 1966. The perpetrator, [[Charles Whitman]], was a student of architectural engineering at the university, and killed 31 people. This incident was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman at the time.
+Though there were several school shootings in the 70's and 80's, few of these resulted in multiple deaths. Some that did, including the CSU, Fullerton massacre and the Stockton schoolyard massacre were perpetrated by adults who either had never attended the institutions they attacked, or had passed out/dropped out long ago.
+The 90's saw a surge in school shootings. The archetype of the school shooter as an angry, alienated young person (young man, mostly) was established in this decades. School shooters sought to emulate former shooters by wearing the same clothes (mainly black trench coats) as them, and, in some cases, using the same weapons (pipe bombs/ specific guns). The most tragic school shooting of this decade, as well as the deadliest High School shooting at the time, was the [[Columbine High School shooting]], in which perpetrators [[Eric Harris]] and [[Dylan Klebold]] killed 13 people and injured many more, before taking their own lives.
 ==Causes==