Credit: CC0 Public Domain In an analysis of 2019 mass shootings and hospital locations, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that the closest hospital to more than 70% of mass shootings was a non-trauma center, where sudden, high casualty loads were more likely to ...
Contrary to what many believe, a new study finds that mental illness isn't a factor in most mass shootings or other types of mass murder. "The findings from this potentially definitive study suggest that emphasis onserious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or psychotic mood disorders, as a...
Media hype about mass shootings in America has fostered a myththat the killings are on the rise...Bedard, Paul
like theApalachee High School shootingin Georgia on Sept. 4, in whichtwo students and two teacherswere killed. Taken together, those incidents are also killing more kids than gun violence that does make national news, such as the mass shootings at Columbine...
and a man known so completely and thoroughly by so many of you who have come together here at Woodberry Forest to give thanks to God for his life. I’d like to focus my remarks this morning on two of Dick’s most abundant virtues: his unwavering and joyful love of life, and his unc...
California also hassome of the strictest gun control laws in the country. And in the aftermath of those four mass shootings, new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — who represents a district in southern California — took the opportunity to poke at the state’s firearms restrictions, sayingin a ...
On December 14, 2012, one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in the little town of Newton, Connecticut. The shooter, twenty-year-old Adam Lanza, managed to kill twenty children ages six and seven, as well as 6 adult staff members ...
That includes 371 mass shootings, and 150 children deaths. And though the latest annual FBI data shows that violent crime has decreased from 2020 to 2021, murders have gone up over the same time frame. Source: NeighborhoodScout, using data from the FBI, and the U.S. Census Bureau. Data ...
“To a greater or lesser extent, all known religions have beensystems of ideas that embrace the universality of things and give us a total representation of the world.” —Émile Durkheim inThe Elementary Forms of Religious Life,1912
A collection of essays that look at the ways we consume and perpetuate true crime culture from 14 of the best journalists writing on crime now. I myself am known to love a cult story or one of mass murder, and yet in recent years have felt icky about all of that. I’m hoping this...