In the days since last week’s mass shooting at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, schools across the country have been receiving an onslaught of copycat threats. A wave of threats flooded schools after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, and again after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. Days after the Las Vegas massacre in October, a Nevada high school student threatened to “shoot up” her school. Studies have found that a mass shooting is likely to occur 13 days to 14 days, on average, after another one. Myers told HuffPost that the spike in student threats following a mass shooting suggests a dire need for mental health resources in schools.

Source: Huffington Post February 23, 2018 19:52 UTC