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NBC News is revisiting all 54 of these shootings with the full knowledge that, by the time you read this, the tally may have changed again, and yet another community where the unthinkable happened will do what’s become commonplace — bury its children. A high school student armed with a shotgun entered a classroom and opened fire. One student was wounded, another student was shot at and missed. The teacher convinced the shooter to drop his weapon.
. He fired three shots in the hallway, shooting a girl in the head, who later died from her injuries.The shooter entered the library looking for the head librarian, and ignited a Molotov cocktail before killing himself.A seventh-grader pulled out a gun in the school gym and opened fire. He injured two before a teacher talked him into surrendering.A teaching assistant walked into a college classroom and fatally shot and stabbed another teaching assistant in front of 12 students.
A campus police officer and a safety officer were fatally shot after they approached a suspicious person who turned out to be a former student.An assistant principal and a resource officer were injured at a high school after an 18-year-old student took out a gun and fired it in the principal's office.A shooter in a sniper-type setup injured four after firing more than 200 bullets at a school.
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