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Five school shootings that shook the United States | Abroad | DR The latest school shooting is just one of many that cost children their lives every year in the US. As of yesterday, at least 19 children lost their lives in the tragic massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in the US state of Texas. For several hours, worried parents waited for hear if their children, who should have enjoyed one of the last school days before the summer holidays, would return home again. Yesterday's shooting is far from alone. Since New Year, there have been 27 school shootings in the United States. Here are five school shootings that have sparked protests against gun laws. At half past seven on Friday, May 18, 2018, the alleged perpetrator opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. that eight students and two teachers lost their lives. The suspected perpetrator is a 17-year-old student at the school and his name is Dimitros Pagourtzis. According to the perpetrator's plan, he committed suicide after the attack, but he changed his mind. According to the school, there had been no evidence of what the suspected perpetrator had planned. , reports .A total of ten people killed and injured 14.Although it is four years since the suspected perpetrator was taken by the police, he has not been able to get a verdict yet as according to a clinical examination he is not able to be in a lawsuit.The then US President Donald Trump said in a speech that "this has been going on for far too long in our country" and that his "administration will do everything in its power to protect the country's students, secure the schools and do everything they can to keep the weapons out of the hands of those who may harm themselves or others. "One of his proposals to make schools safer was, among other things, to equip more teachers with weapons. February 2018, Nikolas Cruz entered his school. He was wearing a burgundy T-shirt with the school logo and had a backpack hanging on his shoulders and a black sports bag in one hand. No one at the time knew that he had filled his backpack with magazines for the semi-automatic rifle he had lying in the black bag. The 19-year-old student sat in a stairwell by the halls of the first-year students at the school. An eyewitness met him in there, warning that "he'd better hurry out of there because this is going to be uncomfortable." The student ran out and warned some of the school teachers. But shortly after, Nikolas Cruz stood in the hall on the first floor and shot at students. In less than two minutes, he had killed 11 people and wounded 13. He then continued up to the second floor, where he also shot but did not hit anyone. On the third and final floor, he shot and killed six more people, injuring four. His attack lasted about four minutes, leaving 17 dead. After the attack in Parkland, one of the largest demonstrations against US gun law began. The March for Our Lives movement was led by students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and about 1.2 to 2 million people marched for tighter gun laws in the United States. to raise the minimum age to buy weapons to the age of 21. The attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School was one of the largest school shootings in the United States. The school at the time housed about 456 children who went to kindergarten and up to fourth grade. On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot his own mother four times in the home with a weapon she had purchased. He then collected several weapons that his mother had bought and drove in her car to the school. When he arrived at the school, he started firing at the door and was greeted by the school and a school psychologist. He killed both by shooting them and continued on into the school. Here he went into a classroom where he shot a teacher and 14 children. He then proceeded into another classroom, where a teacher had hidden his students in a closet. She tried to distract him by saying that the students were somewhere else, but he shot both her and six children who were trying to escape from their hiding place. In total, he killed 26 people and ended up shooting himself. massive school shootings, then-US President Barack Obama said he would use all his efforts to prevent further mass shootings. Inspired by the attack, "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013" came to the polls in .With it would be banned from selling more than 150 and magazines with more than 10 shots. Although there was a large public to, it was voted down in. The same became several similar subsequently.At Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, a total of 33 people were killed in a school shooting. Seung Hui Cho was a university student and had previously had several challenges with his mental health according to the school. In 2005, he had been admitted to a psychiatric ward at a hospital, but after 2005 had no contact with any form of psychiatric treatment. On April 16, 2007, around 7:15 in the morning, he shot and killed two people at a dormitory. Two hours later, he sent a package with one as well as photos and videos of himself to the American media NBC news. Here he explained that he felt compelled to commit the shooting. Shortly after that, he continued his attack on the school where he killed 30 people. 17 were injured and several were injured when they tried to flee the school - among other things out the windows. When the police stormed the building around 10 o'clock, Cho took his own life. The attack was the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history until 2016, where 49 people were killed in a shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, .The attack again started a debate on gun laws in the US, but also focused on gaps in the mental health system.What is a mass shooting? a mass shooting in the American context, but here you get two of the definitions that are frequently used: The US Congress defines a mass shooting as a shooting in which more than four people are killed with a firearm within a limited period of time in public space. US NGO Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as a shooting in which more than four people have been killed or injured, including not the perpetrator. Around 11.19 on Tuesday 20 April 199 9 two young men entered their school, each with their semi-automatic rifles and pistols. The two, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, had placed two propane bombs in the canteen that was set to go off at 11.17. They had planned to stand at the exits and shoot those who fled. But when the bombs did not explode, they went into the school and started firing in the canteen and the school library. In less than 20 minutes, the two killed 12 and a teacher and wounded 21. After an exchange of gunfire with the police, the young students shot themselves. , why the two men shot several of theirs, but the killings sparked a major national debate on how to stop school shootings. Several schools in the United States introduced a "zero-tolerance" policy toward student violence. families subsequently tried to sue the school and the police, but most of the cases were not approved for trial.