School shootings are national security threat to U.S.: article

NEW YORK, May 25 (Xinhua) -- Beyond the damage wrought at home, U.S. school shootings are a national security threat, devastating to the country's foreign policy and soft power, according to an article published on the website of the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday.

In the year since a gunman butchered 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the United States has suffered at least 40 school shootings, perhaps most notably at the University of Virginia, Michigan State University, and the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, said the article.