Exposure to school shootings, even if indirectly, is shown to disrupt people’s sense of safety and stability, said Sonali Rajan, professor at Columbia University, who studies firearm-related harms on children. Talking about it can help. Parents aren't alone in this task. ...
In Canada there have been eight mass shootings in 20 years. In the UK there were three and in all of Europe there were around 30 in the same 20-year period (including the massacre in Norway). The US had seven just last week! And 998 since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in...
DUBNER: Isn’t it a little bit shocking that there have been so many school shootings, and something like this hasn’t happened yet? RIEDMAN: It is. Really, the biggest objection is the thought that if there’s a tip line and red-flag laws, that that will lead to guns being taken ...
who traced the rise and proliferation of conspiracy theories surrounding the2012 Sandy Hook school shootingin a new book,Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy in the Battle for Truth. Williamson and Morell discuss how the conspiracy theories began, to whom they tend to appeal...
The film was conceived after the Parkland shooting on February 14th, 2018. I was a new parent of a one-and-a-half-year- old and I was scared and concerned by the frequency of these tragedies. The very next day I began ordering books about mass shootings in America. Looking back through...
There were lots of those mystic, full-circle moments that you just can't make up when those things happen. I cannot believe it actually happened. In a lot of ways, I feel like I haven't had a chance to catch my breath since that day, to really sit in the moment. But oh man, ...
People have always been looking for a reason why horrible things happen. The media is quick to blame video games as the target and cause of many shootings that have occurred, ever since Columbine and Quake. People have been blaming video games for violence for years now, ever since violent ...
Many of these issues come up during post-incident debriefings, but others may only be acknowledged through personal evaluation. Ditch the ‘It can’t happen here’ Mindset Small-town MCIs: Where to begin? How small or rural fire departmen...
So the American school system somehow becomes more of a wreck than in our timeline. This is true, but I did note that other countries have unfortunately also embraced such disturbingly punitive measures. VB.rainer said: I honestly can't imagine the level of pushback that wi...
professor and director of the Center for Health Policy Research at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Ku says it’s possible that the federal government could make new standards around the fluoridation of water, “but that would take a long time to happen....