Guns in schools

There has been shootings at schools for decades, but none like the shootings of today. The first mass school shooting was at the University of Texas, with 17 people killed, which included the shooter, Charles Whitman. He went to school with the intent to kill as many people as possible.

The next mass school shooting didn’t occur until 1999, when two Columbine students killed 13 and wounded 21 others before committing suicide.

Since then, school shootings have become much more frequent. Between Columbine and today, there have been 11 school shootings in which more than five people have died, an...