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> Is there any info on how many of them were school shootings? how many of them were gang violence related death?

If by school shootings you mean the type of random killings that make the news, then that data is published as a part of the FBI active shooter datasets every year (lagging by a few years now).

Here's a 20 year summary

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents...

Averaging about 5 per year, including adults at schools.

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If by school shooting you include shootings by rival gangs, then the numbers go way, way, way up.



For numerical context, according to the NHTSA study from last decade, >25 kids die every year just commuting to school (vehicle accident, or hit by vehicle walking to school, etc).




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