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Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre
four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children according to k12academics.com. this is relevant to the overall issue because it is the first school shooting to happen on us soil -
Columbine shcool shooting
two teens went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. killing 13 and wounding 20 others before killing themselves. this is relevant because it started a national gun debate and another on school safetly -
Virginia Tech shooting
A senior at Virginia tech shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others. This is one of the deadliest shooting world wide by a single gunman. This shooting made widespread criticism of us gun laws . This is relevant because only did it spark of gun debate and school safety but this time it also started a debate on mental disorders -
Mess care that didn't happen
John LaDue planned on committing the worst known school shooting in American history by a mixture of bombs and guns and a clever distraction. He was stopped when someone called the cops on him for breaking into his own storage locker that held all his explosives which the police found and arrested him. This is important because we stopped a totally stoppable event. We stopped someone that was inspired by the Boston marathon bombers and the columbine shooters. -
Sandy hook shooting
Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff members. Before Adam when to the elementary shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. Adam killed himself on the scene by shooting himself in the head. This is relevant in the history of school shootings because it is the worst grade school high school shooting in American history.
