Last month was the first March since 2002 without a school shooting

(Image credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

By Tim O'Donnell

published 13 April 2020

For the first March in nearly two decades, there were no school shootings across the United States.

The last time March went without such an incident was in 2002, and even then there were close calls.

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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.

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