Gun deaths of U.S. kids up 50% in grim new record
Since 2006, there have been eight mass killings at K-12 schools in which four or more people were killed within a 24-hour period, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.measures every incident of gunfire on school properties in the country.
That group says there have been at least 39 incidents of gunfire on school properties in the U.S. so far in 2023, with 177 incidents in 2022, 202 incidents in 2021, 96 incidents in 2020 and 130 incidents in 2019. The deaths tracked from those incidents were pegged at 17 , 57, 49, 24, and 33 for each respective year.
Overall, 2021 also saw the largest yearly number of gun deaths across all ages in the U.S., with 48,830 people killed by gunfire. That is a 23 per cent increase from 2019.
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