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Message: <blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 1342594" data-attributes="member: 33372">hellz yeah we need MORE guns to solve the Gun problem!!Gun violence at U.S. schools continues to grow sharply A fatal shooting in Oregon on Tuesday was the 31st firearms attack at a U.S. school since the start of the year, marking a sharp acceleration in the rash of violence that has occurred on campuses across the nation.The incidents range from the 20 people shot near UC Santa Barbara less than three weeks ago to gunfire that resulted in no injuries at all.The frequency of attacks has picked up since the December 2012 massacre at <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/19/nation/la-na-nn-sandy-hook-funeral-scene-2012121" target="_blank">Sandy Hook Elementary</a> in Newtown, Conn., where 20 first-graders and six adults were gunned down.<a href="http://www.latimes.com/la-na-g-school-shootings-since-dec-15-2012-20140610-htmlstory.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-53978ff5/turbine/la-na-g-school-shootings-since-dec-15-2012-20140610/250/16x9" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>But underlying the high-profile shootings are thousands of incidents involving American youths that never make national headlines, or even get noticed locally. Each year, for example, about 2,000 teens and young children commit suicide with guns at home, according to Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.<a href="http://www.latimes.com/la-na-g-school-shootings-since-dec-15-2012-20140610-htmlstory.html" target="_blank">Related story: School shootings since Newtown, Dec. 14, 2012READ THE STORY</a>In the 18 months since that tragedy, 41 deaths have occurred in 62 documented incidents at U.S. schools. In the 18 months before that attack, there were 17 deaths in 17 incidents. Everytown.org, a group that promotes gun safety, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/la-na-g-school-shootings-since-dec-15-2012-20140610-htmlstory.html" target="_blank">lists 72 incidents</a> since Sandy Hook. The increase comes at a time when all types of violent gun deaths have been essentially flat since about 2000, following a sharp drop since the 1980s, when such deaths peaked in the U.S."School shootings are part of a much bigger problem," he said. "There are 86 people who die from bullets on an average day."On Tuesday, a teen gunman armed with a rifle killed a student at a high school in Troutdale, Ore., injured a teacher and then apparently shot himself in a bathroom. During the evacuation, authorities found another student with a gun not related to the shooting.These school shootings mirror past upsurges in other venues.During the 1980s and 1990s, for example, there were at least 10 shooting incidents that occurred at U.S. post offices, leading to the term "going postal." In 1991, a fired postal worker in suburban Detroit killed three people and wounded six in a post office before taking his own life. More recently, few post office shootings have occurred."I don't know why they have decreased," Postal Inspection Service spokeswoman Stacia Crane said. "The economy changes. People change."Garen Wintemute, director of the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, hesitates to brand such serial events as copycat crimes, but he said shootings tend to feed off themselves."The more we are all aware of them, the easier it is for one of us to do the next one," he said.Still, Wintemute said that guns remain widely available to individuals who are clearly at risk of committing such violence and that authorities have few tools to intervene. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/" target="_blank">Los Angeles Times</a></blockquote>

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