Why U.S. school shootings continue to rise

Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children under the age of nineteen in the United States (Rencken et al. 2025). In America, twenty-five percent of mass shootings happen in schools (Nassauer 2025) and continue to increase unabated (Capellan and Gomez 2018). Mass public shootings in the United States from 1984 to 2015 […]