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The relentless repetition of school shootings in America

2022-05-24T21:53:20.847Z


Many school dramas have struck the United States over the past twenty years. The United States is the only developed country where school shootings are desperately repeated, like the one that mourned an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday. Here are the main recent ones, as well as the deadliest in history. Read alsoUnited States: Biden proclaims more gun controls • Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022 An 18-year-old man killed 14 students and a teacher at Robb Elementary Schoo


The United States is the only developed country where school shootings are desperately repeated, like the one that mourned an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday.

Here are the main recent ones, as well as the deadliest in history.

Read alsoUnited States: Biden proclaims more gun controls

• Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022

An 18-year-old man killed 14 students and a teacher at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, located about 130 kilometers west of San Antonio, according to the governor of Texas.

The suspect is also deceased.

• Oxford, Michigan, November 30, 2021

A 15-year-old teenager killed four students in cold blood and injured six others as well as a teacher on the grounds of high school in Oxford, a small town north of Detroit.

The shooter was charged with “terrorist act” and “murder” and, unusually, his parents were also prosecuted.

• Santa Clarita, California, November 14, 2019

A 16-year-old marks his birthday by shooting students at his high school, killing two classmates and injuring three others before attempting suicide.

The victims are 14-15 years old.

• Santa Fe, Texas, May 18, 2018

A 17-year-old student mows down 20 people in his high school: two adults and eight young people succumb.

The shooter has since been jailed.

• Parkland, Florida, February 14, 2018

On Valentine's Day, a 19-year-old young man, Nikolas Cruz, unloads his semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, from which he had been expelled for disciplinary reasons.

We deplore 17 deaths, most of them teenagers.

The shooter is arrested.

Read also Parkland shooting: $ 130 million for families of victims

• Benton, Kentucky, January 23, 2018

A 15-year-old student shot and killed two other students of the same age at Marshall County High School.

Eighteen other people were injured by bullets or in the chaos created by the shooting.

• Roseburg, Oregon, October 1, 2015

A 26-year-old student gunned down nine people at Umpqua University.

Wounded, he shoots himself in the head.

• Oakland, California, April 2, 2012

A man methodically kills seven people at the small Oikos University in California.

The shooter, a former student of Korean origin, was arrested and died seven years later in prison.

• Newtown, Connecticut, December 14, 2012

After shooting his mother, a 20-year-old madman, Adam Lanza, kills 26 people, including twenty children aged 6 and 7, at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

He commits suicide afterwards.

The United States remains haunted by this massacre because of the many children killed.

• Virginia Tech University, Virginia, April 16, 2007

An unbalanced student from South Korea kills 32 with his two semi-automatic pistols, before committing suicide in this famous institution of higher education.

Read alsoUnited States: a teenager obsessed with Columbine sows panic then commits suicide

• Columbine, Colorado, April 20, 1999

Two students from Columbine High School, aged 17 and 18 and heavily armed, kill twelve classmates and a teacher in a few minutes before committing suicide in the library.

The toll would have been even worse if they had succeeded in detonating their homemade bombs.

Source: lefigaro

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