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School Shooting

Acts Leading to or Intending Death

A school shooting is an armed attack at an educational institution involving the use of a gun. Many school shootings are also classified as mass shootings because of the number of casualties involved. The United States has recorded far more school shootings than other wealthy nations, with more than fifty times as many as all other G7 countries combined between 2009 and 2018, and the phenomenon has driven political debate over gun violence, gun rights, gun control, and zero tolerance policies, especially in the United States. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Serious or Indictable Offense 1
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1. School shooting (Wikipedia)
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