I asked that question in all three of my classes today.
I qualified it by saying I wanted to exclude anyone shot by Police (justified or not) or in military action.
I made clear to my students I fall in that category, having known several, including a policeman who just happened to walk into a bank robbery in Moorestown NJ in a time when police did not wear protective vest.
I also offered the statistic since Columbine of more than 400 school shootings in buildings holding 186,000 students.
The results were eye-opening.
Remember, I teach primarily 10th graders.
Three classes.
One, with only 13 students present today, had 3. Just under 25%.
Another, with 26 students, present, had 8. That was the class with whom I was in silent lockdown.
And the last? 21 students were present. 11 raised their hands. More than half.
Too many guns.
Too many deaths.