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WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Two children and a teacher were wounded on Wednesday in a shooting incident at a South Carolina school, according to local authorities.
The suspected shooter was a teenager and was in custody after shooting the three victims at an elementary school in Townville, South Carolina, according to a spokesman for local county's Emergency Management Department.
Local newspaper Anderson Independent Mail cited Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore as saying that the students did not appear to have life-threatening injuries.
Due to lax gun control measures, past shooting incidents claimed dozens of lives on campus across the country. In 2012, a heavily armed gunman forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and started a shooting rampage, killing 20 children and six adults. He later killed himself.
In recent years, after high-profile mass shootings occurred, such as the carnage at Sandy Hook Elementary School, U.S. President Barack Obama tried but failed each time to reform the country's flawed gun laws.
In 2013, the Obama administration's gun control initiatives, including expanded background check and bans on assault weapons, were stymied in Congress after staunch opposition from Republican lawmakers and gun-rights lobby groups.
After the shooting spree in San Bernardino, California, last year, in which 14 were killed and 22 more injured, Democrats downgraded efforts trying to pass a measure to keep people on terrorism watch list from purchasing gun. That legislative effort again failed.
During his presidency, Obama has been confronted with more than a dozen of high-profile mass shootings, and in an interview last year he called the failure to reform U.S. gun laws "one of the greatest frustrations" of his presidency.
"If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense gun safety laws, even in the face of repeated mass killings," Obama told BBC in July, 2015.
