20 years on from Columbine, here’s what America’s gun violence epidemic looks like, by the numbers

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Hundreds of thousands of school children have been exposed to gun violence since the shooting

During those shootings at schools, some 143 children, educators, or other individuals were killed in the gunfire.While press coverage of mass shootings at schools and in America often focuses on instances where there are white victims, black students are overwhelmingly impacted. While black students make up 16.6 per cent of the student population in American schools, they represent 33 per cent of the victims. White students, meanwhile represent 56.7 per cent of students in US schools, but 38.

 

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This article was super weak. I expected to see a lot more numbers, some trends maybe. Sheesh.... weak And it’s higher, not hire

columbine wasnt the first school incident. its was the first one that was covered across the country. what we didnt learn from this is the unarmed are defenseless. as long as we seek to disarm. we will have these problems.

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