May 20, 1999: Exactly one month to the day after the Columbine Tragedy, as the Senate voted for groundbreaking gun control measures, a suicidal student walked into Heritage High, in Conyers, GA, and opened fire. According to witnesses, the 15-year-old suspect "unleased a barrage of bullets" into a crowd of fellow students. By the time the shooting had ended, 6 students had been injured.

April 20, 1999: Littleton, Colorado. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two loners with a history of making threats against atheletes and others, carried out a murderous rampage that left 15 dead, including the two killers. The tragedy at Columbine High School focused national attention on the issue of children and guns, gun shows (where the guns used in the massacre were purchased) and school safety.

May 27, 1998: Two teenage students were arrested for allegedly pointing a gun at students and staff at the WB Simpson Elementary School in Camden, DE. According to authorities, the two threatened students on the playground with what appeared to be a gun. When a staff member confronted the two, they allegedly pointed the weapon at her.

May 27, 1998: Police charged a 15-year-old Hereford, MD, student with bringing a semi-automatic pistol to class. A subsequent search revealed a loaded magazine for the weapon in his locker at the Hereford Middle School.

May 26, 1998: A Parkersburg, WV, student was suspended after admitting to planting a gun in a teacher’s backpack. The student had planted the semi-automatic pistol in the bag two weeks earlier.

May 22, 1998: Officials at the Newberry Elementary School near Memphis, TN, seized a loaded .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol from a 10-year-old student after he allegedly pointed the gun at a classmates head and said "pow". Travis C. Leaper was charged with two counts of aggravated assault after bringing the gun to school in his book back. Leaper had apparently taken the gun from under the front seat of his father’s truck.

May 22, 1998: A student alerted school officials that a Baldwin, MO, high-school freshman was in possession of a handgun. When confronted by police, the student relinquished a .22 caliber revolver and ammunition. The student indicated that he had obtained the weapon from his home.

May 21, 1998: Kipland P. Kinkel, a 15-year-old Springfield, OR, high school student opened fire with a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle in the crowded cafeteria of Thurston High School. By the time the shooting had ended, two students had been killed and 20 others wounded. Police found the bodies of Kinkel’s parents in their suburban home later that day. Kinkel had apparently shot his parents before driving to school to begin his rampage. Kinkel had been suspended from school the previous day for bringing a loaded handgun to class.

May 21, 1998: A 15-year-old Onalaska, WA, boy carrying a gun, got on his school bus, and then went to his home and shot himself in the head. Friends reported that he had been arguing with his girlfriend minutes before the incident. Police later determined that the gun had been taken from his father’s dresser-drawer.

 May 20, 1998: In Fayetteville, TN, 18-year-old Jacob Davis shot and killed fellow student Robert Creson. The Lincoln County High School student was apparently upset that Creson was dating his ex-girlfriend. Classmates described Davis as a quiet and unassuming student.

 May 15, 1998: A 16-year-old DeLand High School student was arrested and charged with bringing a firearm to the Orlando, FL,area school. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office reported that the student claimed to have found the gun at his bus stop and had brought it to school to sell it.

 May 15, 1998: A Pelion, SC, high-school student was charged with bringing a loaded 9mm pistol to school after other students had noticed the gun while riding they rode the school bus. The 15-year-old was described as "friendly with a flair for the offbeat."

 May 14, 1998: A student at the Hoggard High School near Wilmington, NC, was charged with bringing a pistol to school. A school spokesperson noted that a number of weapons had been found on the campus.

 May 13, 1998: A 7-year-old girl brought a loaded 9mm Glock pistol to a Pelion, South Carolina, elementary school. A spokesman for the Lexington County Sheriff’s office indicated that the girl had obtained the gun from her father’s truck. "We don’t think she had any criminal intent to hurt Anyone", spokesman Lt. Gary Morgan said, "It was just like ‘Hey, I have a gun.’"

 May 12, 1998: An emotionally troubled Granger Township, OH, student was caught carrying a loaded .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol on a school band trip. Authorities stated that the Band director and chaperone seized the gun after another student had warned them that the youth had a gun and seemed upset. The parents of the 17-year-old boy acknowledged that they had bought the gun for him and that their son had a history of emotional problems.

 May 9, 1998: A 5-year-old took a loaded .25 caliber pistol to school after he had been given a "time-out" by his kindergarten teacher. The Mephis, TN, student apparently obtained the gun from his grandfather’s bedroom dresser. According to authorities, the child "had shown [a fellow student] a bullet and told him that he wanted to shoot [his teacher] and another student.

 May 5, 1998: In Hartford, CT, a 12-year-old boy was arrested for bringing a two-shot derringer to Vernon Center Middle School. Authorities said that the boy had taken the gun from his house because he was "curious about the weapon," and had later forgotten that he had it in his knapsack.

 May 5, 1998: A former Manual High School student entered the school’s gymnasium and threatened several students with a gun. The former student of the Denver, CO, school fled when confronted by school security officers. Denver Public Schools spokesman Mark Stevens was quoted as saying "He was using [the gun] in a threatening manner. This was not show and tell."

 April 27, 1998: Andrew Jerome Wurst, 14, walked into the James W. Parker Middle School Dance and opened fire with .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun. John Gillette, a popular science teacher, was killed and two other students wounded. Wurst had stolen the pistol from his father.

 April 17, 1998: Authorities arrested a 15-year-old Centreville, VA, youth for carrying a handgun to school. The Centreville High school student was released to his parents. Authorities determined that the gun had been stolen two years earlier.

 April 14, 1998: A 10-year-old Capitol Heights, MD, elementary school student opened her bookbag and found a loaded .38 caliber revolver. The girl later told police that her 14-year-old brother had borrowed the backpack for the weekend.

April 2, 1998: A 11-year-old Colorado Springs, CO, boy brought a .38-caliber pistol to school in his knapsack. The fifth-grade student at Bristol Elementary School was later suspended for one year under the local school district’s policy.

 March 31, 1998: A 13-year-old girl brought a loaded pistol to school and committed suicide in a school bathroom. Police had no motive for her suicide in a bathroom at a Chapel Hill, NC, high school.

 March 26, 1998: For the second time in 5 months, a 4-year-old brought a loaded 9mm pistol to a Cleveland, OH, day-school class. Police said that the 4-year-old obtained the gun from his guardian’s brother. The brother kept the gun in a potato chip rack in his store, and claimed that he did not know that the 4-year-old had taken the pistol.

 March 25, 1998: In a crowded Daly City, CA, schoolyard, a 13-year-old fired a .25 caliber pistol at the Principal of his middle school. Authorities said that the assailant was angry at being sent home early from school the previous week, and sought to exact revenge.

 March 24, 1998: Firing from woods overlooking their school, a 13-year-old and an 11-year-old shot and killed four middle school students and a teacher and injured 10 other students in Jonesboro, AR. The two students were found with three rifles, seven handguns and more than 500 rounds of ammunition. The weapons were taken from the home of the 11-year-old’s grandfather and father.

March 20, 1998: Three seventh-graders in Bethel, WA, hid a handgun and a clip of ammunition in bushes near school grounds after one of the students brought the weapon on a schoolbus. The gun belonged to the father of one of the students and no motive was given for bringing the weapon to school.

March 13, 1998: A sixth-grader brought a sawed-off .22 rifle to school in West Los Angeles, CA. The student was caught showing a bullet from the weapon to a classmate in homeroom and the unloaded rifle was found in his backpack. The student said he found the weapon in an abandoned camper near his home.

 March 6, 1998: After a female student teased him about his ears, an 8-year-old Indianapolis elementary school student brought a loaded .25 caliber pistol to school. The student was expelled after pointing the loaded handgun at a classmate. The boy had apparently stolen the gun from his 19-year-old brother.

 February 25, 1998: The day before his 14th birthday, Vincent Garofalo from Reed City, MI, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in front of his school locker just after classes started. The eighth-grader had smuggled the .22 caliber rifle which his father had given to him for hunting and target shooting in a guitar case into his school. In the days prior to his suicide, Garofalo had told his friends "something big is going to happen" on that day and that he wouldn’t be around to see his birthday

 February 12, 1998: A 16-year-old Waynesville, NC, student stole his grandfather’s 9mm pistol and brought it to Pisgah High School. Curtis Everhart later pled guilty to bringing a loaded firearm onto school property. Authorities did not have a motive for his actions.

 February 12, 1998: In Salt Lake City, a 13-year old walked into Union Middle School with a gun tucked in his belt. Fellow students noticed the .22 caliber pistol and informed authorities. The student claimed that other students were "out to get him" and that he needed the pistol for protection. He also claimed to have bought the gun for $25 from a fellow student.

 January 24, 1998: Authorities confiscated a .22 caliber pistol after breaking up a heated confrontation between two groups of Forest High School students. The Ocala, FL, police department was uncertain as to the reasons why the 16-year-old youth carried a gun. Police speculate that the youth was either seeking revenge or carrying the gun for self-defense after a friend had been beaten up at school.

 January 15, 1998: In Washington, D.C., 16-year-old Octavious Clarke shot and killed a female classmate after unsuccessfully flirting with her. Witnesses state that Clarke was in a agitated emotional state and became enraged at the victim.

 January 9, 1998: A Brewster, NC, 13-year-old brought a loaded .357 revolver into the principal’s office of Brewster Middle School. Reports indicate that the student felt threatened by older classmates.

 January 8, 1998: A 13-year-old Dayton, OH, boy brought a .22 caliber handgun to school to show off to friends. Discovered during a routine search, the gun belonged to the boy’s father. The boy admitted taking the gun from the top shelf of his father’s closet.

 December 15, 1997: Two students were shot and wounded in Stamps, Arkansas. A local resident commented, "We’re a very close-knit community….it’s hard to sum up how I feel. It’s like a member of your own family being shot". Joseph "Colt" Todd, 14, was arrested in the nonfatal shootings four days later.

 December 12, 1997: An 8-year-old boy brought an .32 caliber pistol onto Wilmington, DE, school bus. Witnesses said that the child thought the weapon a toy, and was showing it to classmates on the way to school.

 December 6, 1997: A fourth-grader in Mountain Grove, MO, brought his parents’ 9mm handgun to school. A teacher confiscated the weapon when he produced the gun for show and tell.

 December 4, 1997: A 15-year-old Kempsville High School was arrested after bringing an .306caliber Mauser pistol to school. The Kempsville, VA, student indicated that he wanted to scare another student who had threatened him.

 December 1, 1997: Micheal Carneal, described as an "ordinary 14-year-old boy", fatally shot three classmates and wounded five others at a West Paducah, KY, high school. At the time, Carneal was armed with several weapons, including a .22 caliber handgun with 3 extra clips. The weapons were allegedly stolen from a neighbor’s garage.

October 23, 1997: A Durham, NC, 5-year-old brought a loaded .32 caliber revolver to his elementary school. The boy told police that his mother’s boyfriend had given him the gun.

 October 15, 1997: A 13-year-old St. Petersburg, FL, student brought a loaded .38 caliber revolver to school and shot a 13 classmate. Cheryl Hartsoe, the boy’s mother, is charged under Florida’s CAP law with leaving a loaded weapon accessible to a child.

 October 7, 1997: A 14-year-old Moose Lake, MN, boy was caught after pointing a loaded handgun at his classmates. The student apparently had felt threatened at school. The boy had apparently taken the gun from a locked cabinet in his mother’s house.

 September 25, 1997: 17-year-old Andrew Burney brought a loaded .25 caliber pistol to class at Central High School in Macon, Georgia. The sophmore student had apparently felt threatened and carried the weapon with a round in the chamber, ready to fire at any time.

 September 11, 1997: Sheridan, CO, police charged the parents and a cousin of a 5-year-old boy who brought a loaded .357 Magnum revolver to school. The gun, loaded with six hollow-point rounds, was confiscated by a teacher after it fell out of the child’s waistband. The child indicated that he had found the gun in his cousin’s dufflebag.

HOW MANY MORE KIDS NEED TO BE SHOT BEFORE CONGRESS WAKES UP ?