Designing Safe Facilities: Years after the Worst School Shootings, New Building Plans, Combined with New Technologies, Make for Safer and More Secure Environments[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN THE SPRING OF 1999, 12 STUDENTS AND A teacher were killed by two...McLester, Susan...
US Shaken by School Shootings but Action on Guns Is Unlikely; as the US Ponders Its Next Move Following One of the Worst School Shootings in Its History, Experts Say the Country Has Paid for Its Right to "Bear Arms" with a Catalogue of Almost Unparalleled Slaughter. Here, Darren Devine ...
The most frequent policy lesson drawn following the Columbine school shootings was the need for more gun controls. Review of the details of both Columbine and other contemporary school shootings indicates, however, that the specific gun control measures proposed in their aftermath were largely irrelevan...
Maine bowling alley and bar shootings (Lewiston, Maine, 2023) 18 13 31 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting (Parkland, Florida, 2018) 17 17 34 United States Postal Service shooting (Edmond, Oklahoma, 1986) 15 6 21 San Bernardino mass shooting (San Bernardino, California, 2015) 14 ...
Gun violence is a leading cause of death for young people in America, and the possibility of shootings has influenced costly decision-making in school systems as administrators juggle fear, duty, and dizzying statistics in efforts to keep schools safe from gun harm. In the first week...
Americans never dealt with a large amount of school shootings or feared them until the shooting at Columbine High School. That shooting changed the public’s view and law enforcement’s response. Until then, the law enforcement strategy was to contain and wait. The first officers on the scene...
Robert Card.The shootings on Oct. 25, 2023, happened at a bowling alley and a cornhole tournament hosted by a bar and grill. Card died by suicide, and his body was found two days later.Justin Juray, owner of the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley where the shooting began, said the...
Everytown for Gun Safety also noted that since January 2013, the US has seen at least 291 school shootings. Former New York police chief Bill Bratton toldMSNBCthat the shootings have become "the new normal," and "the reality is, this is something that will just continue to occur." ...
America was faced with one of its worst ever mass shootings on Friday when 20 children and six adults were shot dead by a gunman who opened fire at an elementary school in Connecticut. The gunshot at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, about 65 miles north-east of New York, is under...
Then, in a country of 333,000,000, it told of three shootings in three different states that left two dead. Tragic! But also…disorienting. Dare we check some actual stats? Gun violence is bad. Who would say otherwise? But “erupting”? That’s a verb that makes you think if you st...