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by fragmede 841 days ago
No they're not. The first reconized school shooting was in 1764, with the Enoch Brown school massacre. There have been school shootings ever since. (Unless you want to argue that the 1700s wasn't that long ago, which it also wasn't, but I don't think that's where you're coming from.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...