School shooting

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Seung-Hui Cho shoots up VT- News

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Columbine shooters on CCTV.

School shootings occur when students, especially those who are bullied or other lone gunman take firearms to a particular school and begin shooting people indiscriminately.

This act is especially common in the united states, but it can occur in other places as well.

It manifests as a kid simply shooting a person in revenge to large scale school bombings and mass shootings.

After shooting up a school, preparators often commits suicide, although some surrendered to police.

Also, suicidal school shooters typically made martyrdom videos, usually explaining their act and ranting about bullies.

84% of school shooters were motivated by being the victims of bullying, most notably Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

Causes

• Bullying (peer victimization, peer pressure, cyber bullying)
• Revenge against teachers for punishing the shooter unfairly
• Being expelled from the school
• Mental illness (sometimes without cause)

Examples

Preparator(s)	School	Date	Fatalities	Injured	Location	Kill to wound ratio(preparators death excluded)	Suicide
Charles Whitman	University of Texas	August 1, 1966	16	32	Austin, TX USA	1:2	N(was killed by cops)
Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold	Columbine High School	April 20, 1999	13	21	Columbine, CO USA	3:5	YY
Seung-Hui Cho	Virginia Tech University	April 16, 2007	32	17	Blacksburg, VA USA	2:1	Y
Andrew Kehoe	Bath Consolidated School	May 18, 1927	44	58	Clinton county, MI USA	3:4	Y
Adam Lanza	Sandy Hooks Elementary School	December 14, 2012	27	2	Newtown, CT USA	7:1	Y
Tim Kretschmer	Albertville Realschule  and Wendlingen shootout	March 11, 2009	15	9	Winnenden, Germany	5:3	Y
Pekka-Eric Auvinen	Jokela High School	November 7, 2007	8	1	Tuusula, Finland	8:1	Y
Jeff Weise	Red Lake High School	March 21, 2005	9	5	Red lake, MN USA	9:5	Y