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“How Many School Shootings Have Taken Place So Far in 2018?” Snopes.com, 16 Feb. 2018, www.snopes.com/news/2018/02/16/how-many-school-shootings-in-2018/.

Firearm attacks during school hours:7 (incidents resulting in injuries or deaths: 5)

22 January: Italy High School, Italy Texas - A 16-year-old student opened fire with a semi- automatic handgun in the school cafeteria, wounding another student

22 January: NET Charter School, Gentilly, Louisiana - An unknown person fired shots at students from a vehicle in the parking lot. One person injured (though not by gunfire).

23 January: Marshall County High School, Benton, Kentucky - A 15-year-old student opened fire with a handgun on school grounds, killing two and injuring 18.

25 January: Murphy High school, Mobile, Alabama - A student fired a handgun into the air during a fight with another student. No injuries were reported.

26 January: Dearborn High School, Dearborn, Michigan - Shots were fired during a fight in the school parking lot. No injuries were reported.

31 January: Lincoln High School, Philadephia - A fight during s basketball game resulte in the shooting death of a 32-year-old man outside of the school.

14 February: Majory Stoneman Bouglas High School, Parkland Florida - A 19-year-old former student opened fire with a semi-autiimatic rifle, killing 17 and injuring 14.

Firearm Attacks NOT occuring during school hours: 2 (incidents resulting in injuries or deaths: 2)

20 January: Wake Forest University, Winston-salem, North Carolina - A 21-year-old was shot and killed during a fight at a party on school grounds.

5 Febuary: - Oxon Hill High School, Oxon Hill, Maryland - A student was shot and injured in the school parking lot during an attempted robbery.

Shots fores during school hours, unknown reason: 2 (no injuries)

10 January: California Sate University, San Bernardo, California - Bullets were fired through a window, with no suspects or motive identified.

8 February: Metropolitan High School, New York, NY - A student fired a gun into the floor of a classroom.

Unintentional gunfire during school hours:3 (incidents resulting injuries or death: 1)

10 January: Graysin Collage, Dension, Texas - A student fired a weapon belonging to an adviser, believing it wasn't loaded. No injuries were reported.

1 February: Salvador B. Castro Middle school, Los Angeles - A semi-automatic handgun brought to school be a 12-year-old student accidentally went of. Four students were injuried.

5 February: Harmony Learning Center, Maplewood, Minnesota - A third-grader pressed the trigger of a law enforcement officer's hangun. The weapon went off but no one was injured.

Suicide attempts during school hours: 1 (resulting in death)

10 January: Coronado Elementary School, Sierra Vista, Arizona - A middle school student shot himself in the bathroom of the school and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Stray bullets hitting school buildings during school hours: 1 (no injuries)

4 January: New Start High School, near Seattle - Bullets fired by en unidentified shootoer enetered an administrative office. No injuries were reported.

Stray bullets hitting school buildings NOT occurring during school hours: 1 (no injuries)

15 January: Wiley Collage, Marshall, Texas - Gunshots fired from a vehicle in the parking lot of a collage dorm entered through a window, but did not injured residents.

Tell me what you think when you read this. Which one/ones you actually know about I would like to know what you think about this. Little do you know the school shootings are increasing in number.

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