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