It’s been a year and a half since the devastating Sandy Hook school shooting that claimed 27 lives. Unfortunately, school shootings have hardly subsided since that tragic day.
In the last 18 months there have been a total of 74 school shootings in the United States for an average of over 4 shootings per month. If summer breaks are removed from the equation, the average jumps to over 6 shootings a month. Nearly half of these shootings have involved at least one death.
This interactive map compiled by the Washington Post and Everytown for Gun Safety shows each of these shootings. Red markers indicate shootings that occurred in 2013 while blue markers indicate 2014 shootings.
There have been multiple shootings in Atlanta, GA; Grambling, LA; Savannah, GA; Jackson, TN; Roswell, NM; Milwaukee, WI; and Augusta, GA; so you’ll need to zoom in to see the separate incidents in these cities…