The Spark

the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist

“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx

School Shootings:
U.S. Violence Out of Control

Sep 15, 2025

On September 10, another school shooting occurred in Evergreen, Colorado, wounding two students, as an armed 16-year-old pumped round after round toward other students.

In the past 10 years, there were 390 shootings at schools and colleges throughout the U.S. and 259 people, children, young people, teachers and staff died in these events. In the past eight months, there were 47 school shootings with 19 dead and at least 77 injured—before Kirk’s murder at Utah Valley University on September 11. And the numbers of school shootings and deaths are going up, not down.

And these school shooting numbers don’t include the numbers of “ordinary” killings or burglaries or carjackings or domestic violence against women and children. The United States has more violent activity involving guns than any other rich country in the world.