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Andy, you said on the Main Talk Page that, "''...this problem is growing: there were 4 mass murders...in 2007. How many will there be in 2008?''"  I'm afraid that's not accurate--there's been a fairly steady number of such incidents for at least a decade.  Googling "school shootings" will bring up various timelines going back years with much fodder for this article.  --[[User:RossC|RossC]] 14:23, 9 December 2007 (EST)
 
Andy, you said on the Main Talk Page that, "''...this problem is growing: there were 4 mass murders...in 2007. How many will there be in 2008?''"  I'm afraid that's not accurate--there's been a fairly steady number of such incidents for at least a decade.  Googling "school shootings" will bring up various timelines going back years with much fodder for this article.  --[[User:RossC|RossC]] 14:23, 9 December 2007 (EST)
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:It's certainly been growing since the mid 90s, though. There was a wave of school shootings in 1997-1999, and copycat incidents have happened since. I just wrote a paper for my college class using statistics from 1995, and the writers then were arguing that school violence was relatively rare. And it certainly wasn't as much of a threat in the 1970s. It's growing, even though there may be variance year to year. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 14:24, 9 December 2007 (EST)
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