Active Shooter
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While hindsight is 20/20, looking back over the past two decades we can identify several red flags that could have been raised on the Columbine shooters
Police response to school shooters has changed dramatically since Columbine, but what work remains to be done to protect our schools?
Father of the young man who killed six and injured 13 near UCSB last month says it’s his “duty” to help prevent future mass killings
School leaders are turning down a new option to arm teachers, arguing that it doesn’t make kids any safer
Minn. teen accused of planning to massacre his family and high school classmates mocked the attacks on the Boston Marathon and Sandy Hook Elementary School as “pretty lame”
Ballistic blanket promises protection against 90 percent of weapons used in U.S. school shootings
Officers investigating allegations that a person may be a danger to himself or others would be required to first check a state database to determine whether the person owns firearms
15-year-old gunman had an assault rifle, handgun and several magazines of ammo hidden in a guitar case and duffel bag when he rode a school bus to the campus
Police responded Tuesday to reports of a shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale shortly after 8 a.m.
11 principals, vice principals and administrators have volunteered under a program approved following the school shooting at Sandy Hook
One student talks to 911 operators while a classmate attempts to tend to his bleeding neck and chest
Man who police say staged an assault on a Ga. courthouse carefully planned the weapons and supplies he would need to enter the building and harm people inside
Jon Meis and other students stopped the gunman Thursday at Seattle Pacific University
In 2010, Aaron Ybarra called 911 to report “a rage inside him” and said he wanted to hurt himself and others
Four people, including a young man who died, were taken to Harborview Medical Center
Seattle police say a student disarmed a lone gunman who entered a building and opened fire
The father of a college student who was gunned down in the May 23 mass killings near the University of California, Santa Barbara said he met privately with the father of his son’s killer on Sunday
Legislators continue to focus on guns, but we also cannot allow the dangerously mentally ill to have access to the myriad other killing tools readily at their disposal in the kitchen drawer, tool shed, or sporting goods store
Shootings has tragically exposed the limitations of involuntary-commitment laws that allow authorities to temporarily confine people
Richard Martinez, whose son, Christopher Michaels-Martinez, 20, died in the attacks, urged students to fight for tougher gun laws
In YouTube videos and a long written manifesto, Elliot Rodger aired his contempt for everyone from his roommates to the whole human race
Gunman got into two gun battles with deputies during Friday night’s rampage in the beachside community of Isla Vista before crashing his black BMW
Originally written for children of law enforcement and military officers, SHEEPDOGS: Meet Our Nation’s Warriors teaches all kids to be strong while remaining virtuous in a dangerous world
Hero911 is a downloadable mobile app that has the potential to save many, many lives
The five people shot were transported to the hospital in stable condition Tuesday
Seventh-grader who went on a deadly schoolyard shooting rampage had images of the Columbine gunmen on his cellphone
The second shooting in two days at a Georgia college Monday left a student with a life-threatening gunshot wound to the head
A gunman who shot and killed three people and injured four more in northeast Arkansas was an acquaintance or friend of the victims
Aurora Police Detective Michael Leiker testified during a pretrial hearing in October that he found evidence of a search for ‘rational insanity’
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