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After a man shot 10 Amish girls then himself at their school, the Amish community raised money for the shooter's family and attended his funeral
When a school shooter killed 5 amish girls at an amish school, the amish community responded by starting a charity fund for the family of the shooter.
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After Charles Roberts executed 6 children at an Amish school and killed himself, the Amish community comforted the shooters family, set up a charitable fund for them, and 30 members of the Amish community attended the Charles Roberts funeral.
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In 2006, a teacher stopped a school shooter by hugging the shooter. The shooter dropped the gun, and the teacher held him firmly against her until other teachers arrived to help.
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After a school shooting that left 5 Amish girls dead, the Amish community shared the donations they received with the shooter's family. They were treated like any other victims' families.
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The Amish community attacked during the West Nickel Mines School massacre was quick to forgive. They consoled the shooter's father and widow, as well as set a charitable fund for his children.
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The 1998 Jonesboro Middle School shooters who killed 5 and injured 10 were released at the age of 21 and immediately attempted to acquire firearms
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After Charles Roberts executed 6 children at an Amish school and killed himself, the Amish community comforted the shooters family, set up a charitable fund for them, and 30 members of the Amish community attended the Charles Roberts funeral.
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The Columbine shooters were neither bullied nor unpopular at school.
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Virginia tech school shooter Seung Hi Cho was enrolled in a popular creative writing class in the college. 62 of the 70 students in the class dropped out of the class because they were scared of Cho.
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About Marian Fisher, a 13-year-old Amish girl who asked a school shooter to “shoot me first” rather than any of her classmates. It was during a 2006 attack on an Amish schoolhouse in which 5 girls were killed. The community eventually forgave the shooter.
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Stephen King wrote a book in 1977 about a school shooter that was so poignant that he decided to remove it from publication.
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I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats was inspired by Brenda Spencer, the first modern school shooter.
Stephen King wrote a novella focusing on a school shooting under the pen name Richard Bachman. After a shooting incident where the book was found in the shooter's possession, King had the book pulled from publication. - source
Less than 20% of mass school shooters regularly played violent video games. - source
Trenchcoats were banned in many US schools in reaction to the Columbine shooting, despite the two shooters not being in the trenchcoat mafia, not wearing them during the shooting, solely because of a photograph shared by the media of them posing with the yearbook-approved group.
Eric Harris one of the Columbine shooters wrote an essay on keeping guns out of schools. - source
The motive of the only school shooter to be executed by the state in US history was robbery of about $1,600 in cash. A cafeteria worker was the only victim, and no students were shot at.
The unsettling police footage investigating the home of school shooter Kip Kinkel on the day of his murders. The officers have to shout over the loud, eerie music...the soundtrack to Romeo and Juliet.
One of the Columbine High School Shooters diary detailed hijacking a plane and crashing it into NYC
Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden are the only living US mass school shooters who are not incarcerated
A teenaged girl named Brenda Spencer is considered the first modern day school shooter. In the midst of her shooting spree she actually answered a call from a journalist and said her reasoning was “[I] don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day.” She then resumed, killing 2 and injuring 9.
The youngest known school shooter was a 6 year old.
