I don't agree with Joanna "every singel school shooting has taken place in a suburban school" but I do agree that a disproportunate number of school shootings since 1980 have taken place in the suburbs. I'm sure a resourceful guy like yourself can give us more information than I have. I do know that more suburban and rural students possess firearms, and not just hunting weapons but handguns and automatic weapons as well than do students in urban areas. I seem to recall that school shootings, while extremely rare, occur on a per student basis in the West and South more often in rural areas while in the East and Midwest in surban areas. You can always find examples of urban shootings but I believe they have been the exception in the last 25 years. Most school shooters are suburban white males.
John Thornton
On 19 Oct 2006 at 10:55, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> On 10/19/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:I believe that
> every single school shooting has taken place in a suburban school.
Um no.
http://www.google.com/search?q=school+shootings+locations
Remember the rural Arkansas shooting by the young boy who had been
bullied, for example?
Tons of shootings occur in urban school as well. When I was a
substitute teacher in Oakland, Ca. Public Schools from '85-'90,
between 2nd and 3rd period at Oakland High School (the school near
the College Ave. area near the Berkeley border) a kid was shot to death
in the halls.
The yr. before a third grader in East Oakland shot to death a
schoolmate during, "show and tell."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1004/p01s01-usgn.html?s=t5
One of four fatal school shootings to beset rural America in just over
a month, the rampage that killed five young girls raises anew a host
of old concerns - about campus security in countryside settings,
access to guns by unstable individuals, and "copycat" violence
advanced by media attention.
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> Michael Pugliese