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Apr. 29, 2002 Vlasenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina

One teacher killed, one wounded by Dragoslav Petkovic, 17, who then killed himself.

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Sept. 28, 2004 Carmen de Patagones, Argentina

Three students killed and 6 wounded by a 15-year-old Argentininan student in a town 620 miles south of Buenos Aires.

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Sept. 13, 2006 Montreal, Canada

Kimveer Gill, 25, opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon at Dawson College. Anastasia De Sousa, 18, died and more than a dozen students and faculty were wounded before Gill killed himself.

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Nov. 7, 2007 Tuusula, Finland

An 18-year-old student in southern Finland shot and killed five boys, two girls, and the female principal at Jokela High School. At least 10 others were injured. The gunman shot himself and died from his wounds in the hospital.

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Sept. 23, 2008 Kauhajoki, Finland

A 20-year-old male student shot and killed at least nine students and himself at a vocational college in Kauhajok, 330km (205 miles) north of the capital, Helsinki.

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Mar. 11, 2009 Winnenden, Germany
Fifteen people were shot and killed at Albertville Technical High School in southwestern Germany by a 17-year-old boy who attended the same school.

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Apr. 30, 2009 Azerbaijan, Baku

A Georgian citizen of Azerbaijani descent killed 12 students and staff at Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. Several others were wounded.

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Apr. 7, 2011 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A 23-year-old former student returned to his public elementary school in Rio de Janeiro and began firing, killing 12 children and seriously wounding more than a dozen others, before shooting himself in the head. While Brazil has seen gang-related violence in urban areas, this was the worst school shooting the country has ever seen

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July 22, 2011 Tyrifjorden, Buskerud, Norway

A gunman disguised as a policeman opened fire at a camp for young political activists on the island of Utoya. The gunman kills 68 campers, including personal friends of Prime Minister Stoltenberg. Police arrested Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian who had been been linked to an anti-Islamic group.

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Mar. 19, 2012 Toulouse, France
Mohammed Merah, a French man of Algerian descent, shot and killed a rabbi, two of his children, and another child at a Jewish school. Police believe he had earlier shot and killed three paratroopers. Merah said he was a member of Al Qaeda and that he was seeking revenge for the killing of Palestinian children.

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Jan. 7, 2015 Paris, Franc

Three masked gunmen storm the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly magazine, and kill 12 people, including the paper's top editors and cartoonists, as well as two police officers. The provocative magazine is known for publishing charged cartoons that satirized Islamic terrorists and the Prophet Muhammad.

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Jan. 15, 2017 Monterrey, Nuevo Len, Mexico

A student at Colegio Americano del Noreste, brought a handgun to class and shot several classmates and himself. The high school had not yet implemented security measures that became widespread in Mexico in the prior decade.

[MartinSE]

Originally Posted by spd2918

Jan. 15, 2017 Monterrey, Nuevo Len, Mexico

A student at Colegio Americano del Noreste, brought a handgun to class and shot several classmates and himself. The high school had not yet implemented security measures that became widespread in Mexico in the prior decade.

Lets see, in your examples one country had 2 in the past couple decades - that would be France. We have had 27 so far this year. And the year is not half way over.

There are always exceptions, and nothing is perfect.

To compare to your list over the past decades, here is a list of school shootings in the US since 2000 (it provides a link to shooting prior to that)

List of school shootings in the United States - Wikipedia

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Jan. 29, 2017 Quebec, Canada

Alexandre Bissonnette, a Quebecois man who publicly expressed anti-Muslim sentiments, attacked the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec, where he killed six and injured nineteen who were attending prayer.

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Successful lawsuits against gun manufacturers might get some changes like those the tobacco companies underwent decades ago.

Guns don’t kill unless a person pulls the trigger. Guns aren’t a carcinogen like tobacco. These kinds of things are products of perhaps too many violent video games, lack of proper parenting (instilling values and morals), lax or no punishment for crimes, and I could go on and on. My parents would have whipped me until I couldn’t stand up if I’d acted like some of these kids do these days. Parents just don’t discipline because they are a generation who didn’t get disciplined either.