The following list provides a chronology of the major incidents of gun violence involving children and other mass shootings during the decade.

2 February 1996: Barry Loukaitis, 14, killed a teacher and two students and wounded another at Frontier Junior High, School* in Moses Lake, Washington. He is now serving two life sentences.

1 October 1997: Luke Woodham, 16, stabbed his mother to death and then drove to Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi, where he proceeded to kill two students, including his former girlfriend, and to wound seven others. Woodham was sentenced to life in prison.

1 December 1997: Michael Carneal, 14, killed three students and wounded five others who were attending a prayer meeting at Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky.

24 March 1998: Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, killed a teacher and four classmates and wounded ten other persons at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

24 April 1998: Andrew Wurst, 14, killed a teacher...