The shooting revived both the national debate about gun control and the outpouring of grief that follows in a country where such attacks occur with some regularity.
People in Winder, a city of 18,000 some 80 km northeast of Atlanta, gathered in a park for a prayer vigil on Wednesday night.
The shooting was the first planned attack at a school this fall, said David Riedman, who runs the K-12 School Shooting Database. Apalachee students returned to school last month; many other students in the US are returning this week.
The US has seen hundreds of shootings inside schools and colleges in the past two decades, with the deadliest resulting in over 30 deaths at Virginia Tech in 2007. The carnage has intensified the pitched debate over gun laws and the US Constitution’s Second Amendment, which enshrines the right “to keep and bear arms”.
Source: CNA
