On May 27, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Guy Smith wrote:
A Gun Facts reader in Argentina emailed me with two tough questions,
which I
hope other may help me answer.
A) Aside from Lott and Landes 'Multiple Victim Public Shootings' are
there
any other studies that attempted to measure the negative impact of
'gun free
zones'?
Not so much a study as a realization that if you catalog all the
venues of "celebrated" mass shootings and spree shootings, you will be
hard pressed to find even one that did NOT occur in a "gun-free zone."
B) My reader recalls once encountering a detailed list of school/
college
shootings that included a victim list, casualty list and a review of
shootings aborted by armed students/teachers/bystanders (this would
be an
amazing resource). Has anyone else encountered this?
There is a "canonical list" of three school-related shootings that
were aborted by armed civilians:
Pearl (MS) High School, September, 1997: two killed, seven wounded;
also stabbed mother to death. Incident was stopped by armed principal.
Parker Middle School dance, Edinboro PA, 1998; one killed, two
wounded. Incident was stopped by armed party venue owner.
Appalachian School of Law, Grundy VA, 2002; three killed, three
wounded. Incident was stopped by a team of three students, one armed.
If you want to include church shootings, the New Life Church in
Colorado Springs in 2007; two killed, one wounded. Incident was
stopped by an armed civilian volunteer.
A somewhat aged list of "other" school shootings follows. Many of
these seem more like grudge shootings than spree shootings. The well-
known ones (Columbine, Virginia Tech, Ecole Polytechnique, Thurston
High (OR)) had generally much more severe casualty counts.
Recent shootings at U.S. schools
May 21, 1998
SPRINGFIELD, Ore.: A high school freshman, who was apparently
expelled for bringing a handgun to school, opens fire in a cafeteria,
killing one and wounding 28. Two adults are also found dead at the
suspect's home. May 19, 1998
FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn.: a high school senior shot and killed a student
in a school parking lot in Fayetteville Tennessee. They had apparently
argued about a girl. April 24, 1998
EDINBORO, Penn.: Teacher John Gillette is shot dead at a school
dance, allegedly by 14-year-old Andrew Wurst. Two students and another
teacher are wounded. March 24, 1998
JONESBORO, Ark.: 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew
Golden, allegedly fake a fire alarm and open fire on students and
teachers at Westside Middle School. Four female students and a teacher
are killed. Both boys are charged as juveniles with five counts of
capital murder and 10 counts of battery. Dec. 15, 1997
STAMPS, Ark.: 14-year-old Joseph "Colt" Todd is arrested in the
sniper shooting of two students outside their high school. The
students recovered; Todd, who faces trial later this year, said he was
tired of being picked on. Dec. 1, 1997
PADUCAH, Ky.: 14-year-old Michael Carneal entered his high school and
headed for a prayer meeting where he shot eight students, killing
three. Oct. 22, 1997
NORWALK, Calif.: 21-year-old Khoa Truc "Robert" Dang fatally shot his
16-year-old ex-girlfriend on her high school campus. Oct. 1, 1997
PEARL, Miss.: Luke Woodham, 16, opened fire on his classmates,
killing two and wounding seven more in the school cafeteria. Feb. 19,
1997
BETHEL, Alaska.: After making multiple threats, 16-year-old Evan
Ramsey fatally gunned down his high school principal and one of his
classmates. Jan. 27, 1997
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.: Tronneal Mangum, 13, shot and killed another
student on the sidewalk in front of his middle school. Oct. 31, 1996
ST. LOUIS: A student with a gun critically wounded another student in
a school hallway. Sept. 25, 1996
ATLANTA: David Dubose Jr., 16, shot and killed a teacher in a school
hallway. July 26, 1996
LOS ANGELES: High school junior Yohao Albert Rivas, 18, shot and
wounded two classmates in a stairwell on campus. Feb. 29, 1996
ST. LOUIS: Mark Boyd, 30, fired into a school bus after its doors
swung open, killing a pregnant 15-year-old and wounding the driver.
Feb. 2, 1996
MOSES LAKE, Wash.: 14-year-old Barry Loukaitas killed his teacher,
fatally wounded two teenage boys and wounded a girl. Oct. 30, 1995
RICHMOND, Va.: Edward Earl Spellman, 18, shot and wounded four
students outside their high school. Jan. 18, 1993
GRAYSON, Ky.: Scott Pennington, 17, walked into Deanna McDavid's
seventh-period English class at East Carter High School and shot her
in the head. He then shot janitor Marvin Hicks in the abdomen.
Pennington was sentenced to life without parole for 25 years. May 1,
1992
OLIVEHUST, Calif.: Eric Houston, 20, killed four people and wounded
10 in an armed siege at his former high school. Prosecutors said the
attack was in retribution for a failing grade. Houston was convicted
and was given a death sentence.
Source: MSNBC research
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