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“It was very scary. I remember thinking I just wanted to be home with my mother," said Brandon Smith, a former student who was injured the shooting.

Since Columbine in 1999, more than 311,000 students have experienced some form of gun violence at school. And it has stuck with them.

Since Columbine in 1999, more than 311,000 students have experienced some form of gun violence at school. And it has stuck with them.

<p>Patrick Purdy killed 5 children, all from Southeast Asian refugee families, and injured 30 others in a schoolyard gun attack in 1989, an incident that should be a reminder of the horrific combination of racism and guns in America. Gun violence scholar Pat Blanchfield explains how we've collectively forgotten.</p>

In 1989, America's first mass school shooting took place when a troubled Sacramento youth walked onto a playground in Stockton and shot 34 small children, killing five. 25 years later, these once-unthinkable tragedies have become terrifyingly familiar.

California is appealing a decision that overturned the state’s ban on assault weapons, first implemented after a 1989 mass shooting at a Stockton school.

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