Prior to to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School five years ago today,
John Woodrow Cox and I had built a database of school shootings. We had no plans to continue updating it. But in the five years since we’ve learned a lot. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/14/school-shootings-parkland-5th-anniversary/
After Parkland: What we’ve learned tracking school shootings for 5 years

The total number of children exposed to gun violence at school has exploded, rising from 187,000 in 2018 to 338,000 now, a Washington Post analysis shows.

The Washington Post
@databae thank you for doing this work. It’s heartbreaking but so necessary.