Americans Love Guns So Much More than Their Children

The inspiration for this blog, the longest since I began blogging in 2008, was this simple CNN headline (November 1^st): 3rd teenage girl dies from Washington school shooting. As a poignant footnote to his tragedy, the fourth teen died on October 31^st and the fifth on November 8^th. Even the above tribute to the little victims of the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook carnage made me wince… again. It made me wonder how an organization the was once dedicated primarily toward gun safety and teaching people how to use legal weapons properly evolved into the marketing arm of the American small-arms manufacturing industry, twisting and rather successfully distorting the plain meaning of the Second Amendment, letting nothing contradict its pernicious message that our pervasive and extremely lightly regulated use of guns in America trumps just about every other value we hold sacred… including the lives of our own children. Such is the message of the National Rifle Association, that few politicians dare to challenge. Wayne LaPierre, who has taken the NRA to such despicable and homicidal depths, has sold our collective soul to the gun industry.

Over comparable periods of time, our own murderous track record shows more homicidal domestic gun deaths for Americans than all the Ebola, terrorism and military combat deaths combined. And so, from Wikipedia, comes this compilation of school and college shootings in the U.S., only in this decade. I thought it might be a good idea to revisit the murderous years only since 2010 with a detailed list of how guns have redefined education in this country. And remember, while the list is long, this is a personal story of young lives lost. So many children’s lives have been extinguished by a society that cherishes some misconstrued and non-existent blanket right to own weapons more than life itself. Well, here are the lives that were destroyed under that absurd belief:

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Description
February 5, 2010	Madison, Alabama	1	0	14-year-old Hammad Memon shot to death 14-year-old Todd Brown in a crowded school hallway of Discovery Middle School, during changing of classes. The shooting was possibly motivated by gang activities. In May 2013, Memon plead guilty to the murder of Brown, and was sentenced to 30 years of prison. After Memon is released from prison, he is likely to be deported to his native Pakistan.
February 12, 2010	Huntsville, Alabama	3	3	2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting: Amy Bishop Anderson, a biology professor, shot and killed three of her colleagues and wounded three others during a faculty meeting. In September 2012, she was sentenced to a life sentence without the possibility of parole, and is serving her sentence at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.
February 23, 2010	Littleton, Colorado	0	2	At Deer Creek Middle School, Bruco Eastwood opened fire from a Winchester Model 70 rifle in a parking lot. Two students, one female and one male and both eighth graders, were both shot and wounded. The boy's wounds were critical for the four days following the shooting. Eastwood was taken down by teachers and held until his arrest. In October 2011, Eastwood was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
September 8, 2010	Detroit, Michigan	0	2	Mumford High School shooting. Two students were shot and wounded in front of Mumford High School. A 17-year-old man, Steven Jamal Hare, was tried as an adult and charged with assault with intent to kill. In 2012, Hare was sentenced to 27 years of prison
September 28, 2010	Austin, Texas	1	0	Colton Tooley, 19, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, fired multiple shots around the campus with an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle. Nobody was injured. After the shooting, Tooley walked into the Perry-Castañeda Library and then committed suicide.
October 1, 2010	Salinas, California	1	0	15-year-old student Jose Daniel Cisneros is shot to death on an athletic field at Alisal High School. Cisneros was walking to the school campus at 8 a.m., and was shot multiple times. Police said that the shooting was gang-related.
November 29, 2010	Marinette, Wisconsin	1	0	Samuel Hengel, 15, took 23 students and a teacher hostage inside a classroom of Marinette High School for five hours. Before the hostage situation, Hengel stormed in the classroom with a handgun and fired shots at a movie projector while a movie was playing. After releasing all the hostages, police entered the building and Hengel shot himself in the head. He died the next day.
December 6, 2010	Aurora, Colorado	0	1	In a gang-related attack outside Aurora Central High School, a 17-year-old girl was shot and wounded. The wounds caused her to be paralyzed. Luis Enrique Guzman-Rincon, 20, fired shots from a car while students were standing outside the high school, trying to shoot at a group of students who were believed to be gang rivals. Guzman-Ricon was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
January 5, 2011	Omaha, Nebraska	2	2	At Millard South High School, student Robert Butler Jr., 18, shot and killed Assistant Principal Dr. Vicki Kaspar, and wounded Principal Curtis Case. Butler then opened fire indiscriminately in the front office area, causing the school nurse to be injured by gunshot debris. Butler drove to a parking lot and then fatally shot himself.
February 2, 2011	Placerville, California	1	0	Schnell Elementary School Principal Sam Lacara is shot to death in his office, by John Luebbers, a custodial employee at the school. No schoolchildren were injured, but authorities believe that at least one student witnessed the shooting. In June 2012, Luebbers was sentenced to 50 years to life on murder charges.
March 16, 2011	San Jose, California	1	0	18-year old Brandon Wantland shot 18-year old Ruben Cortez at a McDonald's restaurant on the 800 block of South Bascom Avenue. Brandon Wantland approached Ruben Cortez from behind the head before shooting. This shooting caused San Jose City College and Del Mar High School to be on lock down. Brandon Wantland was set for trial on April 14, 2014.
March 25, 2011	Martinsville, Indiana	0	1	Michael Phelps, a 15-year-old suspended student, returned to Martinsville West Middle School with a 9mm handgun. In the entrance of the school, Phelps shot 15-year-old Chance Jackson twice in the abdomen. Phelps fled the school and dropped the handgun in a field and was arrested shortly after. As a result, Jackson suffered from life-threatening injuries and underwent surgery three times, and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Phelps was convicted of attempted murder in August 2011, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison and 5 years of probation. He will be eligible for parole in 2026.
March 31, 2011	Houston, Texas	1	5	Multiple gunmen opened fire during a powder puff football game at Worthing High School. One man, an 18-year-old former student named Tremaine De Ante’ Paul, died. Five other people received injuries.
May 23, 2011	Pearl City, Hawaii	0	1	A 14-year-old male student is accused of firing a handgun on the campus of Highlands Intermediate School, wounding one student. The gunman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Two other suspects were arrested in connection with the shooting.
October 24, 2011	Fayetteville, North Carolina	0	1	A 15-year-old girl was shot in the neck at Cape Fear High School. She was hospitalized for two months at Duke University Hospital in serious condition. A .22-caliber rifle was used in the attack. A student of the school,15-year-old Charles Underwood, was arrested and charged with attempted murder. Underwood was convicted of attempted first-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
December 8, 2011	Blacksburg, Virginia	2	0	Ross Truett Ashley, 22, a part-time business student at Radford University, shot and killed a police officer engaged in an unrelated traffic stop on the campus of Virginia Tech, then committed suicide in a nearby parking lot.
December 9, 2011	Edinburg, Texas	0	2	Two students were shot after school at Harwell Middle School in Edinburg, Texas while trying out for their school's basketball team. The shooting allegedly occurred from an adult off campus who was apparently shooting on a target range.
December 28, 2011	Flint, Michigan	0	1	One person was shot outside Northern High School during a basketball game. It was reportedly gang-related. A witness remarked, "It's just a few people (who cause trouble) everywhere you go."
January 10, 2012	Houston, Texas	0	1	One student was shot and injured after another student opened fire at North Forest High School. The student said that he was being confronted by three other students who were bullying him, and he took out a handgun and fired at them in self-defense. A 16-year-old bystander was unintentionally hit in the leg. The 18-year-old suspect was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
February 22, 2012	Bremerton, Washington	0	1	Third-grader Amina Kocer-Bowman was accidentally shot when a fellow student brought a 9mm handgun to school and it went off when he dropped his backpack. She survived after 6 weeks in the hospital and a surgery to remove the bullet from her spine.
February 27, 2012	Chardon, Ohio	3	3	Chardon High School shooting: Thomas "T. J." Lane, 17, took a Ruger MK III .22 caliber semi-automatic handgun and a knife to Chardon High School and fired ten shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. Three students died in the attack; a 16-year-old boy died immediately, and two other male students died from their wounds the following day. Three other students were injured. Lane was arrested when he was standing near his car parked near the school, and was charged as an adult with murder, attempted murder, and firearms offenses. In March 2013, he was sentenced to three life sentences without the possibility of parole.
March 6, 2012	Jacksonville, Florida	2	0	At Episcopal School of Jacksonville, fired Spanish teacher Shane Schumerth, 28, shot and killed head of school Dale Regan before committing suicide. Schumerth, who had been struggling with depression, was fired for incompetency around 8:30 a.m. on March 6, 2012 and escorted off school grounds. He returned to the campus at 1:15 p.m. with an AK-47 assault rifle concealed in a guitar case. He entered Regan's office and shot her multiple times before turning the gun on himself.
April 2, 2012	Oakland, California	7	3	Oikos University shooting: One Goh is accused of shooting to death seven students and wounding three others in a classroom at Oikos University, a small Christian college. The gunman told the students in the classroom to line up against the wall, and exclaimed "I'm going to kill you all!" before firing the gun at them. He fled the scene, stealing a victim's car, and was apprehended hours later in a nearby location. The weapon used was a .45 caliber handgun. Goh is charged with seven counts of murder and is believed by his psychiatrist to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.
May 26, 2012	Chapel Hill, North Carolina	1	0	A Carrboro man was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman in front of Mary Scroggs Elementary School minutes before school was to be dismissed for the long holiday weekend.
August 16, 2012	Memphis, Tennessee	0	2	Two Hamilton High School students were shot and wounded in the parking lot of the school. The attack was believed to be gang-related.
August 27, 2012	Perry Hall, Maryland	0	1	Robert Gladden, 15, took a double barrel shotgun to Perry Hall High School and fired two shots inside the school cafeteria. A 17-year-old senior with Down syndrome was hit in the lower back while he was sitting at a table and suffered critical wounds. Gladden was immediately subdued by two school faculty members, and was arrested. In February 2013, he was sentenced to 35 years in prison on attempted murder charges.
September 7, 2012	Normal, Illinois	0	0	A student fired multiple gunshots in the ceiling of Normal Community High School, and was tackled by a teacher. Nobody was injured. A 14-year-old student was arrested and is charged with 16 felony counts.
September 26, 2012	Stillwater, Oklahoma	1	0	Cade Poulos, 13, fatally shot himself in the head shortly before classes started at Stillwater Junior High School.
October 6, 2012	Mobile, Alabama	1	0	Gil Collar, 18, was fatally shot after approaching a campus police officer while he was having a medical emergency. Gil Collar had ingested a legal lab chemical, though it is unknown whether he ingested it willingly or not. He began acting erratically, and when he approached the police station naked and battered, Officer Trevis Austin, equipped with both pepper spray and a baton, felt his life was threatened by the unarmed 140 lb teen. Video shows that the officer shot Gil Collar without the student getting within 5 ft of him. Trevis Austin was cleared of any wrongdoing.
October 12, 2012	Fairmount, North Dakota	0	1	A freshman of Fairmount Public School shot himself in the head with a handgun in front of his classmates in a classroom. He was hospitalized in serious condition at a hospital in Fargo. Fairmount Public School serves all students from K-12 in the community of Fairmount, a town of 380 residents.
October 31, 2012	Los Angeles, California	0	4	At a Halloween party on the University of Southern California campus, an argument escalated and a man pulled out a handgun and shot a rival gang member, Geno Hall, seven times, critically wounding him. Three other people, who were not students of USC, were shot and wounded and hospitalized with less serious injuries. Brandon Spencer, 20, was arrested for the shooting. In April 2014, Spencer was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.
December 14, 2012	Newtown, Connecticut	28	2	Adam Lanza, aged 20, killed 26 people and himself at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking her guns and driving to the school. Lanza brought four guns with him; A Bushmaster .223 caliber XM15-E2S rifle, a Glock 10mm handgun, a Sig-Sauer P226 9mm handgun, and an Izhmash Saiga-12 12 gauge shotgun which was later found in the trunk of the car and not used in the shootings. During the attack, 20 first-grade children aged six and seven were killed, along with six adults, including four teachers, the principal, and the school psychologist. Two others were injured. Lanza used the Bushmaster .223 caliber rifle against all of the victims at the school. He then took his own life with one of the handguns as police arrived at the school. According to the state's chief medical examiner, H. Wayne Carver, all of the victims were shot between 3 and 11 times.
January 7, 2013	Fort Myers, Florida	1	0	Shots were fired at Apostolic Revival Center Christian School, leaving 27-year-old Kristopher Smith dead in what was believed to be a retaliation killing, possibly for talking with police about a previous incident.
January 10, 2013	Taft, California	0	2	A gunman entered a science classroom of Taft Union High School with a 12 gauge shotgun and opened fire. A 16-year-old male student, identified as Bowe Cleveland, was shot in the chest and critically wounded. Another student was shot at, but was not hit. The classroom teacher, Ryan Heber, convinced him to drop his weapon, and the gunman followed his order and was later arrested. Additionally, Heber suffered a minor wound from being grazed by a shotgun pellet during the ordeal. The gunman is suspected to be a 16-year-old student of the school, Bryan Oliver. Cleveland and the other student that was shot at are both believed to be intended targets of the gunman. On January 14, Oliver was charged with two counts of attempted murder and assault with a firearm.
January 15, 2013	St. Louis, Missouri	0	2	A gunman shot an administrator in his office on the fourth floor of Stevens Institute of Business and Arts, wounding him. The suspected gunman, Sean Johnson, a part-time student, shot and wounded himself on a stairwell. Both the administrator and Johnson were hospitalized in stable conditions. Johnson was charged with three felony charges, including assault.
January 15, 2013	Hazard, Kentucky	3	0	Two people were shot and killed and a third person was wounded at the parking lot of Hazard Community and Technical College. The third victim, 12-year-old Taylor Cornett, died from her wounds the next day. 21-year-old Dalton Lee Stidham was arrested and charged with three counts of murder.
January 16, 2013	Chicago, Illinois	1	0	A 17-year-old boy, Tyrone Lawson, was shot to death in a parking lot of Chicago State University. The shooting happened after high school basketball games were being held on the university campus, and Lawson was a spectator at the event. Police arrested two people after the shooting and recovered a weapon.
January 22, 2013	Houston, Texas	0	3	Between the Library and Academic Building outside of Lone Star College–North Harris, two men got into an argument and one of the men pulled out a gun and shot the other man, a student, injuring him. A maintenance man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The gunman accidentally shot himself in the leg. After the shooting, the gunman fled into the woods and was arrested hours later. The charges against the initial suspect were dropped and another man was arrested.
January 31, 2013	Phoenix, Arizona	0	0	An argument over turf and respect between two rival gangs escalated to what police now describe as a "gun battle" in January at Cesar Chavez High School in Phoenix. About fifteen shots were fired in the general direction of a line of people waiting to get into a scheduled boy's basketball game. Fortunately, no one was injured.
January 31, 2013	Atlanta, Georgia	0	2	A 14-year-old male student was shot and wounded in the back of the neck at Price Middle School. The gunman, a student, was believed to be arguing with the other student before taking out a handgun and firing multiple shots at him. In addition, a teacher was injured during the shooting. Afterward, the gunman was disarmed by a school resource officer and subsequently apprehended. He was charged with aggravated assault.
March 18, 2013	Orlando, Florida	1	0	At the University of Central Florida, 30-year-old student James Oliver Seevakumaran pulled a fire alarm went off at the Tower 1 dormitory. According to plans he had written, Seevakumaran intended to attract a large amount of people inside the building to gather and shoot them. He then pointed a handgun at his roommate and threatened to shoot him inside their dormitory room. Seevakumaran released his roommate who ran into a bathroom to call 911. Seevakumaran then fatally shot himself in the head. Authorities found an assault weapon, a couple hundred rounds of ammunition and four homemade bombs inside his backpack.
March 21, 2013	Southgate, Michigan	1	0	A student, 13-year-old Tyler Nichols, shot himself in the bathroom at his school, Davidson Middle School.
April 12, 2013	Christiansburg, Virginia	0	2	Two women were wounded during a shooting at the campus of New River Community College. Neil Allen MacInnis was taken into custody.
April 16, 2013	Temple, Texas	1	0	A student shot himself in the head while at school, and died on the night of the incident.
April 16, 2013	Grambling, Louisiana	0	3	Three students were shot and injured on the campus of Grambling State University.
April 18, 2013	Cambridge, Massachusetts	2	1	At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, near Building 32 (Stata Center) at 10:48 p.m. EDT, a campus police officer was shot multiple times. The officer, 26-year-old Sean Collier, was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in nearby downtown Boston, where he was pronounced dead. The shooting was believed to be perpetrated by the suspects of the Boston Marathon bombings that took place in Boston three days prior to this shooting. The two suspects are brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. About three hours after the MIT shooting, Tamerlan died in a gunfight with police in Watertown, Massachusetts. In that gunfight, another officer was shot and seriously wounded. Dzhokhar was arrested 18 hours afterward in Watertown, and was hospitalized in critical condition from a gunshot wound to the neck.
April 29, 2013	Cincinnati, Ohio	0	1	At around 8:00 AM EST, a student shot himself at La Salle High School, a Catholic school. The student, Joe Poynter, was hospitalized in critical condition at a Cincinnati hospital. According to police, no known threats were made to any other students or staff. Police arrived immediately after the incident was reported.
May 14, 2013	Birmingham, Alabama	0	0	Allegedly responding to a student fight, a parent brought and fired a weapon on the campus of Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School. No one was injured.
June 7, 2013	Santa Monica, California	6	4	2013 Santa Monica shooting: Six people, including the shooter died and four others were wounded at or near the campus ofSanta Monica College when a lone gunman opened fire on the school campus library after shooting at several cars and a city bus at separate crime scenes. The gunman, John Zawahri, was fatally wounded by responding police officers. Among the dead were the shooter's father and brother, both of whom died inside a house that was set on fire a mile or so from the Santa Monica College campus.
June 20, 2013	West Palm Beach, Florida	2	0	Two custodians at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School were shot and killed. The deceased were Christopher Marshall, 48, and his boss Ted Orama, 56. A third custodian was suspected in the killings and was apparently on the lam.
August 20, 2013	Decatur, Georgia	0	0	A man with an AK-47 fired six shots inside the front office of Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, an elementary school. After the gunman fired the shots, he barricaded himself in the office and police at the scene returned fire. Nobody was injured. Children had to leave the building and were being guided to a corner of a field, where they were picked up by their parents. The alleged gunman is a 20-year-old male named Michael Brandon Hill. In the front office of the school, Hill talked with Antoinette Tuff, a woman who worked in the front office, who had called 9-1-1. Tuff talked him down, and helped him surrender to the police before anyone was hurt. Hill was apprehended.
August 23, 2013	Sardis, Mississippi	1	2	A student, Roderick Bobo, 15, was shot during a football game at North Panola High School in what was termed as a gang-related shooting. Two others were injured in the shooting, and three men were charged as being responsible for the crime.
August 30, 2013	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	0	1	A 15-year-old male student was shot in the neck and shoulder at Carver High School, at 2:30 PM. The victim was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. An 18-year-old male student was apprehended by a school resource officer without incident. The suspected gunman is charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, carrying a concealed gun, possessing and discharging a firearm, and carrying a firearm onto educational property. The shooting was believed to be the result of an on-going dispute between the suspect and the victim.
September 28, 2013	Gray, Maine	1	0	Gaige McGue, 19, of Denmark died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the parking lot of Gray-New Gloucester High School during homecoming weekend. According to the sheriff’s office, McCue had never been a student at the school.
October 4, 2013	Pine Hills, Florida	0	2	A 16-year-old student was shot in the hip at Agape Christian Academy after a fight broke out at 2 pm. An innocent bystander was hit in his ankle by a stray bullet or shrapnel. The two victims were treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The suspected shooter reportedly fled in a car with several other males. He was not caught.
October 15, 2013	Austin, Texas	1	0	A 17-year-old student fatally shot himself with a handgun in the courtyard of Lanier High School. The shooting happened in front of other students.
October 21, 2013	Sparks, Nevada	2	2	12-year-old seventh-grade student Jose Reyes opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun at the basketball courts of Sparks Middle School, injuring one student in the shoulder. A teacher, Michael Landsberry, who was trying to intervene with the gunman was then shot and killed by Reyes, as he was standing on a playground. Reyes shot and wounded student who tried to come to Landsberry's assistance after he fell onto the ground. That student suffered an injury to his abdomen. Reyes then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. The shooting happened before classes, and the school was evacuated and was closed for the week.
November 2, 2013	Greensboro, North Carolina	0	1	A 21-year-old student was shot and wounded at North Carolina A&T State University. The victim was hospitalized for serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The university was temporarily locked down that night, and the lockdown was lifted about half an hour later. No suspects are in custody.
November 3, 2013	Lithonia, Georgia	0	2	A Stephenson High School student and a janitor were shot in an apparent confrontation between team members and a group of teens who were not attending the school. Both were innocent bystanders in the ordeal.
November 13, 2013	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	0	3	After classes ended, at least one gunman came out of the woods and opened fire on three students as they were walking to their cars at Brashear High School. One student was grazed in the head, another was struck in the neck and shoulder, and a third was hit in the leg and foot. Six people were taken into custody. The shooting is believed to be drug-related.
November 26, 2013	Rapid City, South Dakota	1	0	A physics professor, Alberto Lemut, 37, at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Electrical Engineering/Physics building.
December 4, 2013	Winter Garden, Florida	0	1	A 15-year-old student was shot and wounded by a 17-year-old student near a soccer field on the campus of West Orange High School. The shooting occurred after a fight broke out between the two students. The 17-year-old suspected shooter was taken into custody several miles away from the school, and is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, possession of a firearm by a minor and possession of a firearm on school grounds.
December 13, 2013	Centennial, Colorado	2	0	18-year-old Karl Pierson shot 17-year-old student Claire Davis in the head, fatally injuring her, in a hallway in Arapahoe High School. Pierson then committed suicide by shooting himself. Pierson was armed with a shotgun, three Molotov cocktails, and a machete. He was looking for a faculty member who had disciplined him, and intended to shoot him. Claire Davis died from her injuries on December 21, 2013.
December 19, 2013	Fresno, California	0	1	Four teens went into Edison High School in what was believed as a gang-initiation process. After accosting a 62-year-old woman about a mile away from school grounds, they found an athletic trainer who taught at Edison High and shot him several times in the leg and stomach. It took a few days for the youths to get caught, and this was cinched when the 62-year-old woman and some surveillance video gave police the information they needed.
January 9, 2014	Jackson, Tennessee	0	1	A student was charged with bringing a gun to school at Liberty Technology Magnet High School and shooting a fellow classmate in the thigh. The incident occurred outside the front of the school.
January 13, 2014	New Haven, Connecticut	0	1	A 14-year-old boy was shot outside of a basketball game at the Hillhouse High School athletic facility, suffering wounds in his hand and leg.
January 14, 2014	Roswell, New Mexico	0	3	Two people were shot and wounded inside the gymnasium of Berrendo Middle School, at about 8:10 am. An 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were airlifted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas in critical condition. The 12-year-old suspected shooter, Mason Campbell, a seventh grade student, was apprehended at the scene after he was talked down by a staff member and dropped the shotgun. A staff member received minor injuries. Campbell is facing charges of three counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He faces a maximum sentence of confinement in a juvenile detention facility until he is 21 years old.
January 17, 2014	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	0	2	A student allegedly shot two other students in the gymnasium at Delaware Valley Charter School. Both victims, a male and a female, were shot in the arm. They were taken to a nearby hospital and are in stable condition, police say. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said at a news conference that the shooter ran out of the school after the shooting but was taken into custody near his home. 17-year-old Raisheem Rochwell was arrested and charged as an adult for aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and firearms offenses.
January 20, 2014	Chester, Pennsylvania	0	1	One person was shot and critically injured at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. The incident occurred around 10:00 pm outside the university sport’s complex and led to an 8-hour university lock-down. The suspect was not immediately found.
January 21, 2014	West Lafayette, Indiana	1	0	A 21-year-old student, Andrew Boldt, was shot and killed in a classroom building on the campus of Purdue University. A suspect, 24-year-old student Cody Cousins, was arrested and charged with murder.
January 24, 2014	Orangeburg, South Carolina	1	0	A 20-year-old student was shot and killed at South Carolina State University. A 19-year-old was arrested and charged with murder.
January 25, 2014	Los Angeles, California	1	0	A man was shot and killed at Los Angeles Valley College. Two suspects were arrested in the fatal shooting.
January 27, 2014	Carbondale, Illinois	0	1	A group of students at Rebound High School got in an argument in the school's parking lot. One student pulled out a gun and shot another student in the ensuing altercation. An 18-year-old suspect is facing charges of attempted murder.
January 28, 2014	Nashville, Tennessee	0	1	One student was shot in the leg in an apparent altercation over a gambling debt at Tennessee State University. The incident occurred during the 2014 State of the Union address where President Obama mentioned the importance of gun safety.
January 30, 2014	Palm Bay, Florida	0	1	Three students were fighting in a parking lot of Eastern Florida State College and one pulled out a gun and shot another of the students. All three student claimed self-defense.
January 31, 2014	Des Moines, Iowa	0	1	After a basketball game at North High School, there was gunfire in a parking lot of the school. Six males in a black jeep had came moments before the shooting and returned at the time it happened. A 15-year-old girl was injured by a ricocheting bullet. While officers were gaining control of the area, teachers on the scene led students into the school building for safety.
February 8, 2014	Bend, Oregon	1	0	A 17-year-old student, Zachary Leyes, fatally shot himself in a classroom at Bend High School. No other students or faculty were injured.
February 10, 2014	Salisbury, North Carolina	0	1	A 16-year-old student was shot in the stomach on the campus of Salisbury High School during a dispute in the school gym. 17 year old suspect was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, possession of a firearm on school property and discharging a weapon on school property.
February 10, 2014	Lyndhurst, Ohio	0	0	Five shots were fired in the parking lot of Charles F. Brush High School, including one which hit an unoccupied police car. No one was reported to be injured, though a school basketball game was going on at the time.
February 12, 2014	Los Angeles, California	0	1	A male victim was shot in the back in a possible gang-related drive-by shooting near the University of Southern California. The suspect fled into the University Campus. The victim was last reported in stable condition before being transported to a local hospital.
March 12, 2014	Miami, Florida	1	0	An elementary school teacher was shot and killed outside The Academy of Knowledge Preschool. Police investigators believe the shooting stemmed from an argument the victim had with an unidentified man at a house close to the preschool. The suspect took off and remains at large.
March 25, 2014	College Park, Georgia	0	0	An argument between students led to shots being fired in a Benjamin Banneker High School parking lot during the afternoon. Investigators believe multiple people were present when shots were fired, but it was not known how many could face charges for the incident. No one was injured in the shooting.
April 9, 2014	Greenville, North Carolina	0	0	Just after the lunch hour, at D. H. Conley High School, a car drove past the school and witnesses said an occupant reached out of a car window and fired shots in the direction of the school. This all occurred on Worthington and Tull Roads, which are right in front of the school. No one was injured.
April 11, 2014	Detroit, Michigan	1	0	After a Friday evening student awards ceremony called "Grammy Night", four men who were affiliated with a gang fired into a crowd in the parking lot of East English Village Preparatory Academy; one nineteen-year-old teen, Darryl Smith, was fatally shot in the head. Smith was not a student at the academy.
April 21, 2014	Griffith, Indiana	2	0	A man fatally shot his estranged wife in the parking lot of Saint Mary School in northwestern Indiana and later killed himself at his home after a police officer confronted him.
May 4, 2014	Augusta, Georgia	0	1	Two men fired shots inside a dormitory at Paine College on Sunday, injuring one student in the head. Neither of the suspects were students at the college.
May 5, 2014	Augusta, Georgia	0	1	An active shooter situation was reported at Paine College on Monday with one person reported to be shot. The suspect was apparently apprehended and in custody. It was the second shooting incident to occur at the college campus in two days.
May 8, 2014	Lawrenceville, Georgia	0	1	A person was shot on a student parking lot roof at Georgia Gwinnett College, receiving an injury. The specific cause has not been identified.
May 14, 2014	Richmond, California	0	1	A 14-year-old student was injured during a drive-by shooting in front of John F. Kennedy High School at 8:30 am. He was shot as he was running towards the school campus after a fight took place. The student suffered a serious but stable injury to his leg. Police are searching for a suspect.
May 23, 2014	Isla Vista, California	7	13	2014 Isla Vista killings. 22-year-old Elliot Rodger went on a stabbing and shooting rampage just outside the main campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Some campus buildings were within the route of the shootings. The spree began when Rodger stabbed to death three men in his apartment. Leaving the scene in his car, he drove to a sorority house, where he shot four people outside, fatally wounding two female students. He drove to a nearby deli and shot to death a male student who was inside. He then sped through Isla Vista, shooting at bystanders and striking four people with his car. Rodger exchanged gunfire with police twice during the killing spree. The rampage ended when his car crashed into a parked vehicle and came to a stop. Rodger committed suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
June 5, 2014	Seattle, Washington	1	3	Three people were shot inside a hallway in Seattle Pacific University. One student died. The gunman was tackled by a student as he was reloading his shotgun, and arrested at the scene. The suspected shooter is identified as 26-year-old Aaron Ybarra.
June 10, 2014	Troutdale, Oregon	2	1	At around 8:30 am, shots were fired at Reynolds High School. 14-year-old freshman Emilio Hoffman was killed, a physical education teacher was injured, and the gunman, 15-year-old Jared Padgett, exchanged gunfire with police officers and then committed suicide in a restroom stall.
September 9, 2014	Miami, Florida	0	1	Towards the end of the school day, one alternative school student in Miami was shot as a small group of students tussled. The injury was minor, requiring hospitalization, and five young adults were later questioned.
September 10, 2014	Lake Mary, Florida	1	0	A Greenwood Lakes Middle School student shot himself in the head in a bathroom stall on campus. He shot himself after school. He was 14-years-old.
September 18, 2014	Pewaukee, Wisconsin	0	0	Pewaukee High School student was arrested on Friday after it was discovered that he had an unloaded rifle but also hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his car on school property. The accused was a 17-year-old junior.
September 27, 2014	Terre Haute, Indiana	0	1	A 20-year-old Indiana State University (ISU) student was shot by another ISU on Saturday inside a residence hall. The injuries were not fatal, and a full recovery is expected. The shooter was arrested on the following day. [501]
September 30, 2014	Albemarle, North Carolina	0	1	Two students got in an argument at Albemarle High School around 7:30am on Tuesday, and one of the students shot the other twice including once in the leg. The student who committed the shooting was allegedly involved in a stabbing of a football player last year at West Montgomery High School, which is only 20 miles (32 km) away in Mount Gilead, North Carolina. Thankfully, the school had held an active shooter training over the summer, which prepared the school for this incident.
September 30, 2014	Louisville, Kentucky	0	1	One student was shot and injured at Fern Creek Traditional High School. The incident occurred around 1pm, reportedly after student became enraged in a hallway and pulled out a gun. The student was arrested later that day.
October 3, 2014	Fairburn, Georgia	1	0	After a homecoming football game, a fatal shooting of Kristofer Hunter, 17, occurred in the Langston Hughes High School parking lot. The assailant, Eric Dana Johnson Jr., 18, turned himself in a week later.
October 24, 2014	Marysville, Washington	5	2	Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting. On October 24, 2014, at around 10:39 a.m. PST, officials ordered a lock-down of the school due to a "emergency situation." A gunman, later identified as Jaylen Fryberg, who was a student in the school, shot and wounded several students in the school cafeteria before committing suicide.

            I’m Peter Dekom, and we should be deeply ashamed that we have allowed the National Rifle Association to turn our schools and colleges into a killing field.