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School shooting at Wisconsin Christian school. A 15-year-old girl opened fire in a Wisconsin school classroom Dec. 16, fatally shooting a fellow student and a teacher and wounding six other people before killing herself with the handgun, police said. The shooting took place at the Abundant Life Christian School, which has 420 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. There have been 322 school shootings in the United States this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database website, the second-highest total of any year since 1966, topped only by last year’s 349. Only about 3% of all U.S. mass shootings are perpetrated by women.

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