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On April 20, 1999 the attack on Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado killed 13 and marked the second deadliest shooting pre-2000. Columbine is known as the most notorious due to its logistics, spark for change, and fear for all schools. The journals and tapes left behind by the killers pointed to a rage and anger pointed at the school as a whole and scared many parents and students throughout the country.
From 1928-1959 no claims of school violence were reported. 1959-2000 had 44 attacks in 41 years.
Columbine sparked positive benefits for law enforcement tactics and paramedic procedures. Sadly, the negative influence seems to have more of an effect.
School Violence is not new to our country. There have been 76 acts of school violence since 1927.
Since 2000, 31 school attacks have occured. 31 in 18 years greatly outweighs the 44 in the previous 41 years. Many claim gun laws are too loose, many also claim mental health funding has receded and caused this.
Columbine motivated Seung-Hui Cho to shoot up Virginia Tech University in 2007. He planned on topping Columbine and did by killing 32 in the most deadly school shooting in history.
In 1927, the most deadly instance of school violence occured. Farmer Andrew Kehoe deployed two explosives inside of the Bath Consolidated School of Bath, Michigan killing 44 others along with himself. This is the first act of school violence as we know it.