Devastating, frightening and incomprehensible, school shootings are hardly new to the United States of America. Statistics gathered from just ten school shootings, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured, representing the work product of America’s ten deadliest school shooters. To qualify as one of the ten deadliest, the shooter must have struck a minimum of ten individuals and caused at least five deaths.
Yet, the question remains, what type of person would enter a school with the purpose to extinguish human life? Do school shooters aim with specific targets in their sights, or are victims struck at random, guilty of nothing more than of being in the wrong place at the wrong time? To fully understand …show more content…
Department of Justice. Implicit in the term active shooter, is the use of a firearm; therefore, one that commits a shooting within the confines of an educational institution, is known as an active school shooter. Excluded from the classification of school shootings, are those events that occurred on school properties, but had no relevance to the school or those within. Random shootings or suicides on a school property, where those involved have no affiliation to the school or those in attendance, will not be considered a school shooting.
Chronologically detailed below, are ten of the deadliest school shooting incidents in recent American history.
• August 1, 1966 – Austin, Texas, Texas A&M University. Student Charles Whitman, 25, shot and killed fourteen and wounded thirty-two others, before being shot and killed by …show more content…
Secondary School Shooters, commit their acts at secondary schools or those who are current secondary students or who have been within the last three years. Those who shoot at colleges or universities, are called College Shooters. The majority of College Shooters, are current or recent students and even university employees. Finally, Aberrant Adult Shooters are those described as, “at least nineteen years old and had no current or recent connection, as either students or employees, to the schools they attacked.” (Langman
Yet, the question remains, what type of person would enter a school with the purpose to extinguish human life? Do school shooters aim with specific targets in their sights, or are victims struck at random, guilty of nothing more than of being in the wrong place at the wrong time? To fully understand …show more content…
Department of Justice. Implicit in the term active shooter, is the use of a firearm; therefore, one that commits a shooting within the confines of an educational institution, is known as an active school shooter. Excluded from the classification of school shootings, are those events that occurred on school properties, but had no relevance to the school or those within. Random shootings or suicides on a school property, where those involved have no affiliation to the school or those in attendance, will not be considered a school shooting.
Chronologically detailed below, are ten of the deadliest school shooting incidents in recent American history.
• August 1, 1966 – Austin, Texas, Texas A&M University. Student Charles Whitman, 25, shot and killed fourteen and wounded thirty-two others, before being shot and killed by …show more content…
Secondary School Shooters, commit their acts at secondary schools or those who are current secondary students or who have been within the last three years. Those who shoot at colleges or universities, are called College Shooters. The majority of College Shooters, are current or recent students and even university employees. Finally, Aberrant Adult Shooters are those described as, “at least nineteen years old and had no current or recent connection, as either students or employees, to the schools they attacked.” (Langman