Title: The U.S. Has Suffered Nearly 200 School Shootings Since 2000 | Fatherly
Headings: The U.S. Has Suffered Nearly 200 School Shootings Since 2000
The U.S. Has Suffered Nearly 200 School Shootings Since 2000
The school shooting in Rancho Tehama Elementary School in California represents a horrifying trend, with no clear solutions.

Content: School shootings mostly involve young white men. And, not surprisingly, given the ready availability of firearms in the United States, the phenomenon is overwhelmingly American. But, beyond those facts, the great puzzle is how little school shooters fit any kind of pattern.” Bullying may have something to do with it — at least one study found that kids who are bullied are more likely to report that they have access to loaded guns. Meanwhile, the politically-charged issue of whether stricter gun laws would prevent these sorts of attacks dwells in fuzzier territory. On one hand, large data analyses suggest that the sheer presence of guns in the U.S. primes us for mass shootings. On the other, studies have shown that assault weapons bans may not help. Perhaps the greatest barrier to preventing gun violence in the U.S. is that Congress continues to prohibit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from studying the phenomenon, despite the fact that the CDC already studies most other causes of death by trauma, including car accidents. Meanwhile, keeping kids safe in school is only getting more difficult. School shootings are on the rise.