Sentences with phrase «casualty public shootings»

High - casualty public shootings, shown here as the total number killed and injured in these incidents per 100 million people, have recently increased in the United States.

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While many people believe that mass casualty school attacks are a new phenomenon, there have been many acts of violence including school shootings, arson attacks, school bombings and other acts of extreme violence carried out at both public and non-public schools in the United States dating back to at least 1764.

The aforementioned benefit of fewer casualties and reduced human suffering represents a double - edged sword: Some already argue that the American public is too sheltered from the costs and burdens of our current wars; imagine how little attention the public would direct towards a war in which the only casualties were expensive erector sets that shoot.