The FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) has a special about school shootings and very helpfully put up a list of school shootings (done by madmen, as opposed to school shootings where it is the authorities shooting protesters (Kent State)). Here is an abbreviated list (only incidents in schools and universities), in English:
1966 - Univ. of Texas; 15 dead, 31 wounded; gunman killed
1989 - Montreal; 14 women killed; 4 men and 8 women wounded; gunman commits suicide
1996 - Dunblane, Scotland; 16 children and their teacher killed at elementary school; suicide
1997 - Sanaa Yemen; 6 children and two others killed; gunman receives death penalty
1999 - Columbine; 12 students and 1 teacher killed; gunmen commit suicide
2001 - Osaka, Japan; Mamoru Takuma attacks elementary schoolchildren with a kitchen knife. He kills 8 children. He is sentenced to death (sentence carried out in 2004).
2002 - Erfurt, Germany; 16 dead; gunman commits suicide.
2005 - Minnesotta; student kills 5 fellow students, a teacher, a school employee, his grandfather and his grandfather's friend before committing suicide.
2006 - September 13, Montreal; 1 female student killed; 19 wounded
2006 - September 27, Colorado; homeless man kills 1 student and then commits suicide.
2006 - September 29, Wisconsin; student kills principal of school in a struggle for a gun.
2006 - October 2, Pennsylvania; man attacks Amish schoolchildren; 4 girls die. He commits suicide.
2007 - Va. Tech; 32 people die; gunman commits suicide.
There are fewer than I thought -- and although most are in the U.S. (7), a greater proportion take place outside the U.S. (6) than I would have thought.
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