School Shootings - Page 2

Twenty months ago, the worst high school shooting in U.S. history claimed the life of my daughter and 16 other innocent victims.

Summer is coming to an end, and students heading back to school this year feel safer than they did a year ago.

The Denver Broncos will host the graduation ceremony for the Highlands Ranch STEM school, which was rocked by a murderous shooting rampage last week.

The New York Times notes that there have only been 111 school shooting incidents since 1970.

Popular Twitter user and blogger “Kantbot” was suspended from Medium, a major blogging platform, after writing an article arguing that poor public school “mental health programs” are more culpable for school shootings than the availability of guns.

President Donald Trump’s school safety commission recommends that media stop giving notoriety to mass shooters, White House officials told reporters on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump’s school safety commission recommends that schools train and arm personnel to help prevent mass shootings, White House officials previewed on Tuesday.

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri is leading an investigation into the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting and insists teachers must be armed to stop attacks.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) pushed gun control in response to school shootings and admitted the specific controls he pushed would not stop such shootings.

An 18-year-old allegedly massacred his fellow students with a shotgun on Wednesday at a vocational school in Crimea, the Ukrainian territory Russia annexed in 2014, killing 19 and injuring more than 50 others before committing suicide.

Comedy Central’s long-running edgy cartoon series South Park is set to debut it’s 22nd season with jokes about a school shooting.

Moms Demand Action is fighting to ensure Arkansas teachers cannot shoot back if present when one of their schools is attacked.

NPR examined a U.S. Education Department study and discovered that over 66 percent of reported school shootings for 2015-2016 school year never occurred.

Three Texas high school students were arrested Wednesday after classmates said they overheard a conversation in which the male teens allegedly discussed coordinating a school shooting that involved explosives.

One North Texas school district became the first in the nation to outfit all of its faculty and staff members in high-tech, wearable security panic buttons.

Bismarck, North Dakota, is seeking fifteen AR-15s for school resource officers (SROs), and they want to store those guns at the schools, where officers could quickly grab them in the event of an attack.

A Texas school district hopes to incorporate facial recognition technology and tracking software into its current security suite. This decision comes in response to the deadly high school shootings that happened in Parkland, Florida, and Santa Fe, Texas, earlier this year.

Amid failure to secure new gun laws, Stephen King is urging gun grabbers, “Don’t give up.” He wants gun control advocates to keep pushing and specifically notes that they should pursue a ban on “semi-auto rifles,” which he calls “school shooter guns.”

In Somerville, Massachusetts, a classroom full of five-year-olds is learning a new twist on “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” to respond to the threat of a school shooting.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott unveiled a comprehensive new plan to enhance school safety during a Dallas-held news conference on Wednesday. His recommendations come nearly two weeks after an active shooter killed eight students and two teachers plus injured many others at Santa Fe High School.

The man who is charged with the attack on Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14 recorded a video beforehand announcing his plans to be the “next school shooter of 2018.”

The Dallas Independent School District held active shooter awareness training for several thousand students on Monday. This event intended to impart ways to better spot potential threats of campus violence and how to respond should it happen.

Illinois Democrats are pushing legislation to reward schools that use funding to hire therapists instead of armed guards.

As schools across the nation continue to grapple with ways to prevent active shooter situations, some West Texas districts already added a unique layer of protection to thwart these often deadly confrontations – the Telemedicine, Wellness, Intervention, Triage, and Referral (TWITR) Project.

A research assistant at a Turkish university killed four of his colleagues Thursday in a shooting spree reportedly preceded by over one hundred accusations of ties to anti-government Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman may have prevented a school shooting, after one of his followers alerted him to a threatening message on his Instagram page.

“I went from blessed to cursed,” he says about the tragic day that his daughter Meadow, a high school senior, got shot and killed by a psychotic former student that walked into her school with a rifle.

The thousands of people who took part in the March for Our Lives protest along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, on Saturday carried signs revealing their anti-gun, anti-Trump, and pro-left wing agenda.

In the wake of the mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, pundits and politicians have proposed dozens of ideas to prevent the next school shooting that range from banning semi-automatic weapons to arming teachers. When elected to Congress in the fall, I will put forward a bill with an America First answer to this problem.

During coverage of the attack on Maryland’s Great Mills High School CNN reported that there has been one school shooting per week, “on average,” in 2018.

Before thousands of school children poured out of schools across the country last week to demand “gun control,” the resolution introduced by Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates Dave LaRock might not have gained a lot of attention.

On March 15, NPR noted the heinous nature of Florida’s Parkland school shooting but quickly added that claims school shootings are at epidemic levels are false.

The same left-wing organizers of the Women’s March promoted and helped produce the National School Walkout on Wednesday to honor the 17 people killed last month when a former student with a long history of mental health issues went on a shooting spree at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

Former President Barack Obama repeated the false claim of “18 shootings in schools this year” while speaking to a cardiology conference Monday night in Washington, DC.

New Mexico teachers are training to take on active shooters with their bare hands, high-tech pepper spray, and strobe lights. The teachers say they want to make themselves safe in an active shooter situation following the attack in Parkland, Florida.

Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin stuck to his guns in an interview with NPR, saying that the cause of the recent mass shooting at a Florida school is much more than gun availability.