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[SilleeMee]

So frequent are these shootings happening that there is now a new show called "MURDER U" .

[MickD]

I went to university in the 80s......worried about getting robbed maybe assaulted, but not gunned down........go Sparty!!!

[Noel7]

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@hopi wrote:

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@CrazyDaisy wrote:

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@prisrob wrote:

You need some education. Gun deaths are not rare. And, this should not be the price we have to pay.

BBC News

372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker, which catalogues such incidents. A mass shooting is defined as a single shooting incident which kills or injures four

School shootings: There were 64 school shootings in 2015, according to a dedicated campaign group set up in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in Connecticut in 2012. Those figures include occasions when a gun was fired but no-one was hurt.
All shootings: Some 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide]. Those figures are likely to rise by several hundred, once incidents in the final.
60% were by firearm compared with 31% in Canada, 18.2% in Australia, and just 10% in the UK.

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And according to AAA, over the next 100 days and average of 10 traffic deaths per day will be caused by teenage drivers. 

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........and it's a secret on how many deaths are causes by medical malpractice and misprescribed medications.

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So all that makes school shootings OK?  Just because there are other forms of death?

SMH

[SydneyH]

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@YorkieonmyPillow wrote:

UCLA campus is a gun-free zone.

I guess someone didn't get the memo.

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Gun-free zones are useless, people who are willing to commit capital offenses have proven it time and time again.

[MickD]

Students should not have to deal with this .....during finals......oh here comes the sun.....

[YorkieonmyPillow]

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@SydneyH wrote:

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@YorkieonmyPillow wrote:

UCLA campus is a gun-free zone.

I guess someone didn't get the memo.

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Gun-free zones are useless, people who are willing to commit capital offenses have proven it time and time again.

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Yes, that's the point I was making.

Sitting ducks.

[MickD]

2 males confirmed dead.....oh their families.....

[chrystaltree]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

So frequent are these shootings happening that there is now a new show called "MURDER U" .

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        Of course, there must be tens of thousands of such shootings a year.... because...there's a tv show...lol

[SydneyH]

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@MickD wrote:

Students should not have to deal with this .....during finals......oh here comes the sun.....

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i never imagined having to tell my middle schooler that he has to be nice to everyone, even children have no problems killing people over anything these days.

[SeaMaiden]

They said it may be a murder/ suicide.     Suicide note found.