AN 18-year-old gunman, on May 24, 2022, stormed Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, fatally shooting 19 children and two teachers, before being shot dead by police, casting a spotlight on cases of shootings in schools, teenage shooters and gun violence in the United States.

Twenty-three years before the Robb Elementary School shooting, There was a shooting in what is now referred to as the Columbine High School massacre where an 18 and 17-year-old gunman murdered 13 people, – 12 students and one teacher. It was the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history at that time.

The Uvalde massacre is the latest in a years-long series of mass shootings in the U.S., which according to a tally by the Washington Post, is the second deadliest U.S. school shootings in 23 years after the 2013 Sandy Hook Elementary school shootings that led to 26 killed and two injured people.

The country has witnessed a depressing figure of 338 shootings between 1999 and 2022, with at least 185 children, educators and other people killed in assaults and another 369 injured.

The Washington Post, which has spent years tracking school shootings since the Columbine High massacre in 1999, stated that more than 311,000 children at 331 schools had been exposed to gun violence during school hours.

The Washington Post said it pieced together its numbers from news articles, open-source databases, law enforcement reports and calls to schools and police departments because at the time the U.S. government was not tracking school shootings. However, in 2018 Homeland security started tracking, with datasets dating back to 1970.

The ICIR looks at some cases of mass shootings at elementary, middle and high schools that have resulted in at least four fatalities since 1999.

In the data collated by Washington Post, 338 shooting incidents have been recorded under the years in review. In contrast, out of the provided tally, teenagers (age 13 to 19) were recorded to have carried out the highest number of shootings at 183 from 253 age recorded incidents, excluding 86 cases where the shooter’s age is unknown.

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