School Shootings Timeline

I decided to change my topic for the paper; little did I know that this topic was going to blow my mind beyond all reason.

I decided to change to school violence; it’s been in the news lately, and I am interested in covering it. Christa posted a timeline on the discussion boards, and I was reading through it before going to type this blog.

The first thought that crossed my mind was, “Are they really this frequent?” There are at least 3 for every year. Not only that, a lot of them are fairly recent. I don’t keep up with news often, I’ll admit, but I generally tend to hear when a school shooting occurs. I’ve heard about the infamous Columbine shooting and the Virginia Tech shooting not too long ago. But the sheer number of shootings on this list blows my mind. I never heard about any of these shootings from 2006, except the one involving the Amish schoolhouse. I always school shootings were a national thing, on news and everything. I’m either out of it or wrong, I don’t know which.
What I found grotesque besides the frequency of these shootings was the details surrounding them. For example, a majority of the shooters I read about were under 20; a lot of them age 14 or 15. It really is one of those times when you shake your head and think “The world is in a sad state…”