https://twitter.com/samswey/status/967068790814134272
25 fatal school shootings since Columbine. How did each shooting come to an end? A thread. (1/x) https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/02/15/fox-news-anchor-shepard-smith-lists-all-25-fatal-school-shootings-since-columbine/23362465/#slide=ad%23fullscreen
https://twitter.com/samswey/status/967090653011292160
Some of the common themes:
-many shootings happened quickly and ended in suicide
-unarmed school staff de-escalated or subdued shooter in many cases
-in many of these cases school police were on campus. None stopped the shooting
Actually I’m glad you posted this for a different reason. We’ve been talking on and off about suicides and one angle that doesn’t get a lot of discussion is that many mass shootings are also planned as suicides. World’s shittiest suicides, sure, but suicides nonetheless. Presumably some policies designed to prevent suicides would also have an effect on mass shootings.