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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.

“It was very scary. I remember thinking I just wanted to be home with my mother."

<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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