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25 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
As school shootings surge, a sixth-grader tucks his dad’s gun in his backpack.

The attack was part of a disturbing surge of campus gun violence that made this spring unlike any other in modern U.S. history. wapo.st/3dhwzG2
Despite thousands of schools remaining partially, or entirely, closed because of the pandemic, there have been 14 school shootings since March — the highest total over that period during any year since at least 1999, according to a Post analysis. wapo.st/3h39w36
More than a quarter of a million children have been exposed to gun violence during school hours since the massacre 22 years ago at Columbine High School near Denver. wapo.st/3vYiP9V

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