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A History of School Shootings

A History of School Shootings. A gruesome history. Over the course of the past 100 years, there have been at least 46 shootings with multiple casualties, and dozens more with little or no fatalities. Virginia Tech . 32 dead plus the shooter, 16 April 2007, Blacksburg, Virginia

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A History of School Shootings

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  1. A History of School Shootings

  2. A gruesome history • Over the course of the past 100 years, there have been at least 46 shootings with multiple casualties, and dozens more with little or no fatalities.

  3. Virginia Tech • 32 dead plus the shooter, 16 April 2007, Blacksburg, Virginia • Student Seung Hui Cho, 23, killed two students in a dorm and then went through building of classrooms armed with two handguns, shooting at random before killing himself.

  4. University of Texas • 16 dead plus shooter, 1 August 1966, Austin, Texas • Former Marine sniper Charles Whitman, 25, armed with an arsenal of weapons shot victims from the observation deck of the campus tower.

  5. Columbine High School • 13 dead plus two shooters, 20 April 1999, Littleton, Colorado • Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire outside the school killing students and one teacher before shooting themselves in the library.

  6. Red Lake High School • 9 dead plus shooter, 21 March 2005, Red Lake, Minnesota • Jeffrey Weise, 17, goes on a shooting spree at Red Lake High School killing nine people, including his grandfather, before shooting himself.

  7. University of Iowa • five dead plus shooter, 1 November 1991, University of Iowa • Gang Lu, 27, a graduate student from China killed five with a .38-caliber revolver. He was apparently angry because his doctoral dissertation had not been nominated for an academic award.

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