It’s not on the level two full months into 2018 and there have already been 18 primary shootings — more than twice as many as this time continue year.
The attack on Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Train is the first this year in Florida and the 18th within the first 45 times of the year in the US, according to data from Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy systematizing.
A total of 17 victims were reported dead by the Broward County Sheriff, and tranquil more injured. The suspect, who is believed to have acted alone, was enchanted into custody.
This number of shootings represents a significant uptick from sometime years.
There were a total of 65 school shootings in 2017, seven of which happened from stem to stern Feb. 14. The last year that neared 2018’s total for the gold medal 45 days of the year was 2014, in which there were 15 devotees shootings midway through February. There were 58 tot up school shootings in 2014.
Everytown has been tracking school shootings in simple schools, middle schools, high schools and universities since 2013. They publish any time a firearm is discharged within a school building or on campus, whether accidentally or intentionally and whether or not anyone has been wounded.
“When you look at all the ways children are impacted by gun violence, you realize what a tremendous obstreperous we have as a country,” said Sarah Tofte, director of research and implementation at Everytown. “We in effect do deserve to live in a place where children are free from gun distort in their homes, schools and communities.”
According to Everytown, there be dressed been about 291 school shootings since 2013, which debilitates down to about one per week.
The massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Outrageous School is the 180th mass shooting since 2009 and the third in 2018. Everytown for Gun Refuge defines a mass shooting as a gun attack that claims the lives of four or various people. Children make up 25 percent of fatalities in mass shootings, Tofte whispered.
Several of the deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history have enchanted place in schools. In 2007, 32 victims were killed at Virginia Tech University. The 2012 Sandy Euphemistic liberate Elementary School shooting left 26 dead.
Wednesday’s injuring at Marjory Stoneman Douglas is the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Catch, Tofte said.