Active Shooter
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All sworn personnel were required to participate, with ranking officers randomly mixed into each team
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’
A FedEx employee wearing ammunition draped across his chest “like Rambo” opened fire Tuesday at a center outside Atlanta
Man suspected of wounding an officer while shooting up a Los Angeles police station died Thursday at a hospital more than two weeks after the attack
Claim alleges the city “failed to properly hire, supervise, train, staff, and plan for the protection and safety of individuals and personnel”
Law allows guns in bars without restriction and in some churches, schools and government buildings under certain circumstances
Unlike Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, or James Holmes at a movie theater in Colorado, or Jared Loughner outside an Arizona shopping center, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold did not have discernable psychiatric diagnoses
It is not his proximity to death that day that occupied Keith’s thoughts during the ensuing months and years, nor even the question of why he lived and others didn’t
Part two of an active killers series explores behavioral cues of the dangerously mentally ill
Klebold and Harris managed to forever change the way law enforcement looked at active shooter situations
No policy or legislation could address even half of the unique circumstances of school murders
Security experts say the sad truth is that there is probably no practical way of preventing members of the armed forces or civilian employees from carrying guns onto big installations like Fort Hood
There are lessons to be learned from the murderous rampage this week at Fort Hood, but far too many people have failed to learn them before, and I’m not confident this tragedy will enlighten them now
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