Thoughts and prayers are not a solution to school shootings.

I am American and get to experience the news cycle of school shootings weekly, whether it's hearing of hooligans with a gun or a disturbed person looking to cause damage, this is not normal.

Welcome to the revival of another quiz-type series I started and never did anything with - Did you know?. A certain other trivia game series we got going on wouldn't exactly fit in well with this subject so here we are.

Did you know?! there's been over 200 school shootings in the USA between 2020 - 2024!

There is no reward for scoring well. There is no NG API - why would I want to reward people for knowing too much about shootings?

The following text excerpts is directly taken from this Wikipedia page.

School shootings are a "uniquely American crisis", according to The Washington Post in 2018.

According to USA Today, in 2019 "about 95% of public schools now have students and teachers practice huddling in silence, hiding from an imaginary gunman.

Between the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado and the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, there were 31 school shootings in the United States and 14 in the rest of the world combined.

Schools in at least 36 states and the District of Columbia have experienced a shooting.

70% of the perpetrators of school shootings were under the age of 18, with the median age of 16. More than 85% of the perpetrators of school shootings obtained their firearms from their own homes or from friends or relatives.

At least 68 schools that experienced a school shooting employed a police officer or security guard; in all but a few, the shooting ended before any intercession. Security guards or resource officers were present during four of the five school shooting incidents with the highest number of dead or injured.

There were 11 firearm-related events that occurred at a school or campus in the first 23 days of 2018. As of May 2018, more people, including students and teachers, were killed in 2018 in schools in the United States than were killed in military service for the United States.

A United States Secret Service study concluded that schools were placing false hope in physical security, when they should be paying more attention to the pre-attack behaviors of students. Zero-tolerance policies and metal detectors "are unlikely to be helpful," the Secret Service researchers found.

In May 2002, the Secret Service published a report that examined 37 U.S. school shootings. They had the following findings:

Incidents of targeted violence at school were rarely sudden, impulsive acts.

Prior to most incidents, other people knew about the attacker's idea or plan to attack.

Most attackers did not threaten their targets directly prior to advancing the attack.

There is no accurate or useful profile of students who engaged in targeted school violence.

Most attackers engaged in some behavior prior to the incident that caused others concern or indicated a need for help.

Most attackers had difficulty coping with significant losses or personal failures. Moreover, many had considered or attempted suicide.

Many attackers felt bullied, persecuted, or injured by others prior to the attack.

Most attackers had access to and had used weapons prior to the attack.

In many cases, other students were involved in some capacity.

Despite prompt law enforcement responses, most shooting incidents were stopped by means other than law enforcement intervention.