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school shootings  

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  • School shootings are defined as events wherein a person or multiple individuals use gun violence to wound or murder members within an educational institution. These shootings are committed by a variety of people who may be either suffering from a mental illness, who are disenfranchised, current or former students, members of the staff or faculty, or outsiders in the community. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; School Shootings]

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