Another School Shooting

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Another day, another shooting

We just had spree killing at a school:

The first bell had just trilled at Troutdale's Reynolds High School Tuesday morning when the sound of something like fireworks erupted in a locker room by the school gymnasium.

Moments later, a vice principal came over the loudspeaker --"This is not a drill" -- and teachers ran through hallways, yelling at students to lock themselves in classrooms and hide.

A "lone gunman" shot and killed freshman Emilio Hoffman, then was found dead a few minutes later in a nearby bathroom. It is the 74th school shooting in the United States since the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.

December 14, 2012 to today is 543 days, or 77½ weeks, or just under 18 months.

^{77½ weeks}⁄_{74 shootings}. That's about 1 shooting a week, just at public schools.

Think about it.  When you add in various spree killings and act of right wing terrorism that don't involve school children, Vegas last week, Washington Naval Yard, Isla Vista, and that salon killing in upstate New York, and you end up with more than one shooting a week since Sandy Hook.

Note that this is without any incidents in the state of Texas.

And how many have there been in all of western Europe over that time?

We are insane as a society.