Topic over school shootings.

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School shooting is a term used to refer to gun violence in educational institutions, especially the mass murder or spree killing of people connected with an institution. Unlike acts of revenge against specific people, school shootings usually involve multiple intended or actual victims, often randomly targeted.

School shootings are typically differentiated from other kinds of school violence. Mass killings at schools like the Beslan school hostage crisis are usually described as acts of terrorism. The term "school shootings" most commonly describes acts committed by either a student or intruders from off campus. They are to be distinguished from crowd-containment shootings by law-enforcement personnel, such as the student protests and unrest of 1970 at two U.S. universities, Kent State and Jackson State, that led to fatal shootings by National Guardsmen and police.

The most commonly referred to school shooting is that at Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, on Tuesday, April 20, 1999. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were the perpetrators. Like many instances of "school shootings," Harris and Klebold took their own lives before the end of the event. Also similar to many school shooters, Harris and Klebold were found to be victims of bullying. Perpetrators of school killings frequently voice severe anger and isolation preceding their actions. They may have a history of violence, or uncommon inappropriate and extreme behaviors at school.

In the United States, one-on-one public-school violence, such as beatings and stabbings or violence related to gang activity, is more common in some densely populated areas (which tend to be impoverished sections of cities). Inner-city or urban schools were much more likely than other schools to report serious violent crimes, with 17 percent of city principals reporting at least one serious crime compared to 11 percent of urban schools, 10 percent of rural schools, and five percent of suburban town schools in the 1997 school year. Student-perpetrated school shootings in North America have mostly been in overwhelmingly white, middle-class, non-urban areas.[citation needed] In some cases, the victims of the shootings were involved in bullying or other acts of violence and intimidation against the perpetrators. However, school shootings in other countries may take on more national or religious overtones, such as the Merkaz HaRav shooting.

School shootings with more than ten victims are usually referred to as "school massacres".

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2009 18:59 schreef raaavi het volgende:
Heb je de film Elephant gezien?
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Op donderdag 8 januari 2009 19:02 schreef de_gebruiker het volgende:
Bijzonder interessant topic. Ik vraag me wel eens af hoe het zo ver heeft kunnen komen dat ze dan ook daadwerkelijk in het wilde weg rond gaan schieten, op een school nota bene? En volgens mij spelen ze ook vaak online schooters (counter-strike b.v.) maar waarom pakken ze dan die onschuldigen? Voelen ze zich dan zo afgestoten door de maatschappij?

Die in duitsland was geloof ik ook wel aardig heftig

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2009 19:09 schreef Godsgift het volgende:

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Heb jij misschien meer informatie over hen?

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2009 19:15 schreef Godsgift het volgende:

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Ik zou graag iets meer willen weten over wat (men denkt dat) hun motieven waren om zo een gruwelijk iets te doen. Dus de info wat je hierboven gaf, maar dan iets uitgebreider

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2009 19:27 schreef dubidub het volgende:

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dat wat...?

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2009 20:26 schreef remlof het volgende:
Steeds vraag ik mij weer af hoe een tiener zo van het pad af kan raken dat ie mensen mensen gaat doodschieten op z'n school