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6 Statistics About School Shootings You Need To Know

Hank Berrien

With all the supposed facts thrown around vis-à-vis school shootings, here are six statistics you should know related to the subject:

1. According to the Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2015, between July 2012 and June 2013, there were 31 homicides of students aged 5-18 that occurred either at school or while traveling to or from school, which meant that an American student had a less than one in a million chance of such a thing happening to him or her.

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