violence

o Every year in the United States there are over 3 million incidents of domestic violence. That means that every nine seconds someone is beaten by their domestic partner!

o Every year over 4000 victims of domestic violence are killed. Ninety-five percent (95%) of domestic violence victims are women.

o Domestic Violence causes more injuries to women in the USA between the ages of 15 and 44 than car accidents, muggings and rapes combined.

o Nearly a third of the women who seek care from hospital emergency rooms are there for injuries resulting from domestic violence.

(http://members.aol.com/CalypsoSun/dv_abuse.html)

Two young men wearing long, black trench coats opened fire in a suburban high school in Littleton, Colo. injuring as many as 23 students, killing 12 students and one teacher, then killing themselves.

A male teacher and a female guidance counselor are shot in a hallway at a Richmond, Va., high school. The man suffers an injury to the abdomen that wasn't life threatening; the woman is reportedly grazed.

A 15-year-old student in Springfield, Ore., expelled the day be

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Of these students,

35% said they feared attack at school, and 24% feared going to and from school.

- 25th March, 1993:

A ninth-grader is shot by a former girlfriend in the hallway of a high school in St.

(National Center For Education Statistics, 1998)

21% of these crimes occurred at High School, 19% at Middle School & 4% atElementary

Schools.

- 1st October, 1997:

A 16-year-old outcast in Pearl, Miss.

Younger students (age 12 or so) were twice as likely as students age 18 to avoid places at

school because they feared attack.

- 21st May, 1998:

A 15-year-old boy dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Onalaska, Wash.

- 1st May, 1997:

A student is shot on the steps of his high school, City-As-School, in New York City.

- 1st May, 1992:

Four students are killed and nine are injured as a former student opened fire in Lindhurst

High School in Olivehurst, Calif.

- 28th April, 1998:

Two teenage boys are shot to death and a third is wounded as they played basketball at a

Pomona, Calif.

(Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, The Center to Prevent Handgun

Violence)

- Every year, approximately 300,000 firearms are reported stolen to the FBI. Department of Justice)

- There are more than 222 million firearms in the posession of private citizens

in the U.

(National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS), Indicators of school crime and

safety, 1998) http://www.

- 17th January, 1989:

Five children are killed and 29 more are injured as a man randomly opens fire in Cleveland

Elementary School in Stockton, Calif.

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