Baltimore, MD
While shootings in schools are rare, the opportunity for it is not.
ABC2 News compiled a decade’s worth of data from the state of Maryland on out-of-school suspensions.
From the 2001/2002 school year through 2010/2011, 117 students were suspended for firearms throughout our area , which includes all seven school districts -- an average of about 15 per year.
"We would like to see zeros for every single year in all of our jurisdictions, but we don't," said Dr. Daniel Webster.
Webster is the director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Firearm suspensions happen more often than many parents know.
Webster says to get that number to zero is not going to happen overnight.
He recently released a study called The Case for Gun Policy Reforms in America which, in part, calls for gun restriction to high risk groups, specifically those under 21-years-old.
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