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There was at least 136 cases of school shootings between August 1 and 31 December, according to a new report from the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, which was released ´four years after the massacre at the Parkland school in Florida, the largest massacre in a school center in this country.
The number of school shootings recorded in the first half of the school year in the United States, is almost four times the average for that stage, since Everytown began tracking shootings in schools and school grounds in 2013.
School shootings killed 31 people and injured 96 in the first half of the school year 2021-, marking more recorded cases of shootings and shooting at people in the five-month period since 2013, according to the report.
Three out of four of those who unleashed the shooting in schools obtained the weapon at home, according to the report.
“It has been a devastating first half of the school year and, without meaningful action from all levels of government, more students and teachers will be shot, more communities will be traumatized, and more children will spend their days worrying about gun violence,” said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, part of Everytown for Gun Safety.
Sari Kaufman, survivor of the massacre of 17 People at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland criticized that “too often, legislators see the pain and trauma of survivors and do nothing.”
Anniversary of one of the worst school massacres in the United States
Next Monday will be four years since the massacre that occurred at Parkland High School in South Florida, for which its confessed author, the young Nikolas Cruz, pleaded guilty last year or past and awaiting sentencing in a jail in South Florida.
The young man had 17 years when he entered his old school armed with a rifle and perpetrated the massacre, an act for which he faces life imprisonment or capital punishment.
Cruz, who was expelled from that center for misconduct, has been detained ever since and has had problems in prison, where got into a fight with a guard.
In the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, 17 people died and others 17 will be injured.
The devastating shooting renewed the national conversation on gun control and caused between 1.2 and 2 million people to join the March for Our Lives demonstration just over a month later.
In memory of the 17 people who died in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, flags at all state and local buildings, facilities, and grounds in Florida will fly half-staff from sunrise to sunset Monday 05 February 2022.
The massacre at the Parkland school took place on 14 February 2018. Governor Ron DeSantis, in a proclamation released Friday, called it “one of Florida’s darkest days.”
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