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chinanews.com, september 7, according to comprehensive us media reports, on the 4th local time, a serious school shooting occurred at apalachee high school in barrow county, georgia, killing 4 people and injuring 9. this case is the 218th shooting or gun-carrying incident on campus in the united states in 2024.

according to the cbs report, according to the us k-12 school shooting database, at least 46 people have been killed in school shootings this year, of which at least 18 were under the age of 18. this data does not include the two students and two teachers who died in the georgia shooting.

in the past 10 years, nearly 51% of school shootings in the united states occurred during classes. another school shooting during classes was the 2022 rob elementary school shooting in uvalde, which killed 19 children and 2 teachers.

the rest of the school shootings occurred after school, mainly during extracurricular activities such as sports or school activities. data shows that school shootings that occur inside school buildings tend to be more deadly.

the washington post reported that mass gun violence has become a national epidemic, ubiquitous from big cities to small towns, and gun violence in schools is particularly horrific.

on the 4th, stephen kreinbull, a teacher at apalachee high school, was teaching a history class to his students when he received an alert that the school was closed. he said, "my students were lying on the ground. some were crying, some were comforting, and some were cursing."

he described the ensuing evacuation as "chaotic and surreal." after the lockdown ended, "when we passed the classroom where the shooting happened, i saw a pool of blood."

according to the report, there are nearly 1,800 students studying at the school. according to an analysis by the washington post, since 1999, more than 383,000 students in the united states have been exposed to school gun violence.

according to data from the u.s. gun violence archive website, there have been 385 mass shootings in the united states since 2024, with gun violence killing 11,661 people and injuring more than 22,000 people. among them, 173 children aged 0 to 11 and 806 teenagers aged 12 to 17 died from gun violence.