It started in the fourth grade building
The deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade, and what\u2019s changed in the years since the massacre in Newtown, Conn.
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Washington Post reporter Arelis Hern\xe1ndez is on the ground in Uvalde as children and families try to make sense of the violence that tore through Robb Elementary School on Tuesday.
According to a Post database,last year was the deadliest year for school shootings in America since at least 1999, the year of the Columbine massacre. This year is on track to be even worse \u2013 and the reasons for that aren\u2019t entirely clear. John Woodrow Cox, who helped create The Post\u2019s tracker, breaks down the massive, sometimes unseen impact of gun violence on American schoolchildren, and the tricky politics of gun control legislation.
Read an excerpt from John\u2019s book, \u201cChildren Under Fire: An American Crisis.\u201d