Most School Shootings May Be Predicted, Prevented: Secret Service

11/8/19

School shootings

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Sandy Hook, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Columbine—these are but a few of the school shootings in which many lives were lost. Could these shootings have been predicted – and prevented?

Most students who carried out deadly school shootings first displayed threatening or suspicious behavior that went unreported, according to an analysis released Thursday by the U.S. Secret Service.

The report, by the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center, is based on the analysis of 41 incidents of “targeted school violence” in the United States from 2008 to 2017.

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