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Posted: 2018-02-14T23:40:23Z | Updated: 2018-02-16T00:00:13Z

A reported shooting at a South Florida high school on Wednesday marks the countrys 17th shooting incident at a school in 2018, just 45 days into the year.

Thats an average of one shooting incident on a campus about every 63 hours thus far in 2018, more than double the number recorded in any of the previous three years in that same period. Those numbers are according to data compiled by the gun control advocacy organization Everytown for Gun Safety , which defines a school shooting as any time a firearm is discharged on or around a campus.

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Seventeen people were killed in Wednesdays shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

President Donald Trump has spoken vaguely about the need to curb shootings, saying after the Las Vegas massacre in October that the U.S. would start talking about gun laws as time goes by .