Europeans had school shootings, too. Then they did something about it. [washingtonpost.com]

Alicia Doktor 2/16/184:00 AM

BERLIN — Contrary to what you may sometimes hear, school shootings are not unique to the United States. Germany, for instance, went through a string of devastating attacks between 2002 and 2009. Between 1996 and 2008, major school shootings also occurred in Finland and Scotland, among other places.

But in Europe, there hasn't been a major high-casualty gun attack on a campus in almost a decade.

Meanwhile, Wednesday's shooting in Florida was at least the sixth of its kind in the United States this year — 45 days into 2018.

[For more on this story by Rick Noack, go to https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.e241b4c84c00]

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