21 dead in ’84 McDonald’s massacre a distant memory for border community.
The First Shooting I can recall is the San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre which was an act of mass murder occurring at a McDonald’s restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, on July 18, 1984.
The perpetrator, 41-year-old James Huberty, fatally shot 21 people and wounded 19 others before being killed by a police sniper approximately 77 minutes after he had first opened fire. At the time, the massacre was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history, being surpassed seven years later by the Luby’s shooting.
For five years, they were co-teachers. Then they were gunned down. (msn.com)
It’s an all-too-common scene in the U.S., where gunfire on school grounds is at historic levels. And it’s not just after mass shootings — smaller-scale incidents at schools are also happening at alarming rates. Indiscriminate attacks at a school make up a small portion
of the more than 2,000 school shooting incidents since 1970.
Gunfire on school property is at an all-time high, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. Children on lockdown. Armed officers rushing into a school. Parents and loved ones in tears waiting anxiously outside. Firearms became the leading cause of death among children and teens in the U.S. in 2020.
Uvalde mother living near school shares teacher’s heroic actions during the shooting…
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It’s not just Uvalde, Texas — gunfire on school grounds is at historic high in the U.S.
They hoped she was hiding in the Uvalde school. Instead, she was gone. (msn.com)
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This the deadliest school shootings in the United States since Columbine.
At least 554 children, educators, and school staff have been killed or injured in school shootings since the 1999 Columbine High massacre, The Washington Post reported. According to The Post, the shootings left 185 people dead and another 369 injured.
During that period, 311,000 children have been exposed to gun violence at school.
Gunman kills 19 children in Texas school rampage, as of Tuesday night.
The Post wrote that 331 schools have suffered from such attacks since the mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999 when two students killed 13 people and injured 20 others. The frequency of shootings has also surged recently, with 34 incidents in 2021 — the highest in any year since 1999, The Post reported. Overall, an estimated 311,000 schoolchildren in the US have been affected by shootings or were exposed to gun
violence at their school since the 1999 Columbine shooting.
The outlet aggregated these numbers by analyzing news reports, open-source databases, law enforcement reports, and calls to schools and police departments, it said. Its findings only count gunfire incidents that happened on campus immediately before, during, or just after classes, and do not include shootings at colleges or universities.
It also excluded shootings after hours or accidental discharges where no one was hurt. Robb Elementary School had two days left in school year before deadly mass shooting that left 19 students dead and two teachers. Seven in 10 school shootings in the US were carried out by children under 18.
When It Comes to School Shootings, America Really Has a Deeply Tragic Problem.
Since 1999, the median age of school shooters on K-12 campuses is 16, per the outlet.
At least 70% of all school shootings since 1999 have been carried out by people under
the age of 18, when counting cases where the age of the shooter was recorded.
The youngest of these was a six-year-old male first grader, who shot his classmate in 2000 with a .32-caliber handgun after saying he didn’t like her. Based on incidents during that period, the median age of school shooters on K-12 campuses is 16, excluding 86 cases where the shooter’s age is unknown.
In cases where the source of the firearm used could be determined, more than 85% of shooters brought them from home or got them from friends or relatives, Combined, the figures point to the role adult negligence has played in allowing underaged children to obtain lethal firearms.
What we know about the gunman.
One of the deadliest attacks happened on Tuesday — a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. With 19 children & two adults had died as of Tuesday night.
The suspect was an 18-year-old local resident, who was shot dead by a border patrol
officer who rushed into the school without backup and was wounded in the process,
a law enforcement officer told The Associated Press.
Authorities told the Houston Chronicle the suspect purchased the two AR-15-style rifles the day after his 18th birthday. According to The Post, 311,000 children in 331 schools have been exposed to gun violence in their schools since the 1999 Columbine High shooting. The outlet reached these figures by aggregating records from news reports, open-source databases, law enforcement reports, and calls to schools and police departments, it said.
The Post’s findings only factor in gunfire incidents that happened on campus immediately before, during, or just after classes, and excluded shootings at colleges or universities.
It excluded shootings after hours or accidental discharges where no one was hurt.
The Last Thing: Remembering the lives stolen (msnbc.com)
Large signs outside rural Colorado schools warn that teachers may be armed with guns.
119 school shootings since 2018
According to the website ‘Education Week,’ which has been tracking school shootings since 2018, there have been a total of 119 shootings in American schools since tracking began.
212 mass shooting in 2022
In addition, the Gun Violence Archive, an independent data collection organization, reports that there have been 212 mass shootings in the United States so far this year.
The shooter was only 18 and had a semi-automatic rifle
“Rifles should not be easily available to all.”
Eva Mireles’s aunt spoke to the press, as reported by The Independent, who said she
was “furious that these shootings continue,” adding: “These children are innocent.”
900 incidents of gunfire at schools in past 10 years
The American President seemed upset and frustrated as he continued, “It’s been 3,448 days — 10 years — since I stood up at… a grade school in Connecticut where another gunman massacred 26 people, including 20 first-graders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since then, there have been over 900 incidents of gunfire reported on school grounds.”
“What in God’s name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill someone?”
In his speech, Joe Biden expressed what many people outside of America often think when they learn about American gun laws: “The idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons, it’s just wrong. What in God’s name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill someone? Deer aren’t running through the forest with Kevlar vests on, for God’s sake.”
Biden blames gun manufacturers
Biden then took a moment to call out gun manufacturers, saying, “It’s just sick. And the gun manufacturers have spent two decades aggressively marketing assault weapons, which make them the most and largest profit. For God’s sake, we have to have the courage to stand up to the industry.”
Changing gun laws isn’t easy in America
While Biden may be eager to make changes to the gun laws in the United States, it is much easier said than done. A ban on assault-style weapons or high-capacity magazines faces steep odds at the federal level.
Is bipartisan agreement enough?
However, there are some areas of bipartisan agreement. It is hard to say if that will be enough to make the changes the country needs. Only time will tell; however, if Biden somehow manages to improve gun laws in the US, he will accomplish what many presidents have attempted and failed at before.
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Uvalde Police gather outside the home of suspected gunman 18-year-old Salvador Ramos (inset).
Shooter worked at a local Wendy’s.
The teenage gunman accused of killing 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school Tuesday opened fire at random, according to local police. Ramos worked the day shift at a local Wendy’s, a manager at the restaurant told CNN.
Adrian Mendes, evening manager at the Wendy’s, said Ramos “kept to himself mostly.”
“He felt like the quiet type, the one who doesn’t say much. He didn’t really socialize with the other employees,” Mendes said. “He just worked, got paid, and came in to get his check.”
Mendes didn’t know Ramos on a personal level and didn’t see him most of the time because they were on different shifts, he said. Ramos worked from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
or 5 p.m., five days a week, and was already working there when Mendes started in February, he said.
“The suspect made entry into the school and as soon as he made entry into the school he started shooting children, teachers, whoever’s in his way,” Department of Public Safety
Lt. Christopher Olivarez told KENS 5. Texas Gov. Greg Abbot identified the suspect Tuesday as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, an Uvalde resident who was killed by police during the rampage. At least 19 children, 2 adults killed in shooting at Texas elementary school, teen gunman also dead
What we know so far:
At least 19 children and two adults were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday afternoon, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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