A Stark Reminder Of A Familiar But Preventable Threat – The Knoxville School Shooting
With most U.S. students having learned virtually in 2020 because of the pandemic, the nation logged a record low for school shootings. There were just three deaths in a total of 10 school shootings in all of 2020.
This compares with eight deaths in 25 school shootings in 2019.
Now, as students return to schools for in-person instruction, the specter of school shootings is back. This was evidenced in the April 12 school shooting at the Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. The shooting left one student dead and an school resource officer injured.
A school shooting in Knoxville, Tennessee, has left one person dead.
As criminologists and authors of a new book, “The Violence Project: How to Stop A Mass Shooting Epidemic,” we worry that gun violence at America’s schools may ...