The majority of the 74 shootings following the death of 26 students
and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conneticut,
took place at K-12 institutions -accommodating children from
kindergarten to their last year of high school.
Shootings shown
on the map include assaults, homicides, suicides, and accidental
incidents in which a firearm was discharged inside a school building or
on school or campus grounds, as defined by the Everytown for Gun Safety
(EGS) network in its February 2014
Analysis of School Shootings report.
The map was then created by
Huffington Post journalist Mark Gongloff using the EGS data.
To
compile the list of incidents, the EGS referred to publicly available
news reports. Since the initial release of its document, the group has
had to add a further 22 shootings to keep its list up-to-date.
The
cities in which multiple shootings have occurred since Sandy Hook
according to the EGS are: Atlanta, Georgia; Grambling, Louisiana;
Savannah, Georgia; Jackson, Tennessee, Roswell, New Mexico; Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, and Augusta, Georgia.
The
EGS' list now includes the Oregon shooting, as well as an incident
which took place a week before in neighbouring Washington State, in
which a gunman opened fire on a college campus.
A 19-year-old man was killed, and two others were wounded.
To
respond to Sandy Hook and prevent further deaths, President Barack
Obama had planned to introduce broader background checks on gun
purchases, along with proposals for a ban on military-style assault
rifles and limits on ammunition capacity. But the proposals failed to
pass in Congress last year.
Gun control is a fiercely divisive
issue in the United States, where the right to bear arms is enshrined in
the Constitution, alongside rights to free speech and freedom of
religion.
On Tuesday, a mournful Obama conceded he was ashamed as
an American and terrified as a parent that the fundamental shift in
public opinion need in the United States to put a stop to rampant
shooting sprees cannot be secured.
“My biggest frustration so far
is the fact that this society has not been willing to take some basic
steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who can do just
unbelievable damage,” Obama said.
The EGS report does not include
other infamous shootings, including the last fatal incident at an Oregon
school in May 1998, when 15-year-old Kip Kinkel killed two students and
wounded 25 others at Thurston High School in Springfield. The 1999
Columbine High School massacre was also too early to map, but sparked a
similar national gun debate in the US, and was documented in the 2002
film
Bowling for Columbine.
Additional reporting AP
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