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title: ""there are about 55 million schoolchildren in the United States, and…"
date: 2018-11-27
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# "there are about 55 million schoolchildren in the United States, and…

*November 27, 2018 · Facebook*

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[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-did-america-end-up-raising-generation-paranoia/2018/11/13/5d294ec8-e78b-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.21b497fbb511](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-did-america-end-up-raising-generation-paranoia/2018/11/13/5d294ec8-e78b-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.21b497fbb511){target="_blank"}
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\"there are about 55 million schoolchildren in the United States, and about 10 of them are killed annually by gunfire at school, a rate that hasn't increased since the 1990s. That number includes all shooting incidents, not just mass shootings at schools, which average about one a year, in a country with about 130,000 K-12 schools.\"
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