As shootings hit close to home, govs wrestle with next steps
1 year, 8 months ago

As shootings hit close to home, govs wrestle with next steps

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Two weeks after one of his wife’s closest friends was killed in a Nashville school shooting, Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday called on Tennessee’s GOP-dominant General Assembly to pass legislation that would keep firearms away from people who could harm themselves or others. Lee’s call for a law designed to prevent people who may hurt themselves or others from acquiring firearms comes as Republicans maintain supermajority control in both the Kentucky and Tennessee statehouses, where GOP lawmakers have long resisted limiting gun access. Experts in red-flag laws contend that the laws have undoubtedly saved lives, be it in cases involving planned mass shootings, suicides or potentially deadly domestic violence cases. A week ago, Lee was flanked by Republican lawmakers as he called on the General Assembly to pass legislation that would better protect students attending public and private schools.

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US school shooter brought 2 guns, in touch with man plotting fresh attack: Report
4 days, 23 hours ago

US school shooter brought 2 guns, in touch with man plotting fresh attack: Report

India Today  

The shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin brought two guns to the school and was in contact with a man in California whom authorities say was planning to attack a government building, according to authorities and court documents that became public on Wednesday. Police were still investigating why the 15-year-old student at Abundant …

Wisconsin school shooter had 2 guns and got messages from man accused of plotting his own attack
5 days, 5 hours ago

Wisconsin school shooter had 2 guns and got messages from man accused of plotting his own attack

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — The shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin brought two guns to the school and was in contact with a man in California who authorities say was planning to attack a government building, according to authorities and court documents that became public Wednesday. Police were still investigating why the 15-year-old student …

Red flags before school shootings: What students and teachers can look for to help prevent violence
5 days, 23 hours ago

Red flags before school shootings: What students and teachers can look for to help prevent violence

CNN  

CNN — To help avert potential school violence, students and staff need to know certain warning signs – and feel comfortable reporting them. But “the general public, they really don’t know what to look for,” said former FBI special agent and profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole, who has studied school shootings for more than 20 years. Make sure students can report …

What we know about the school shooting that left 2 people dead at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin
1 week ago

What we know about the school shooting that left 2 people dead at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin

CNN  

CNN — Police are investigating why a teenage girl brought a handgun to her small Christian school in Wisconsin and opened fire, killing two people and wounding several others a week before Christmas. Evidence suggests the shooter, who also went by the name “Samantha,” died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Police Chief Shon Barnes said. The shooter did not appear …

What we know about the school shooting that left 2 people dead at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin
1 week ago

What we know about the school shooting that left 2 people dead at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin

CNN  

CNN — Police are investigating why a teenage girl brought a handgun to her small Christian school in Wisconsin and opened fire, killing two people and wounding several others a week before Christmas. Evidence suggests the shooter, who also went by the name “Samantha,” died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Police Chief Shon Barnes said. The shooter did not appear …

School gun deaths reach 48 this year as grim total surpasses 2023 with months to go
2 months, 2 weeks ago

School gun deaths reach 48 this year as grim total surpasses 2023 with months to go

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The number of gun violence incidents on school grounds in 2024 so far has …

Students walk out demanding 'future free from gun violence' after Georgia shooting
3 months ago

Students walk out demanding 'future free from gun violence' after Georgia shooting

Raw Story  

Joined by educators, parents, and gun control advocates, thousands of Georgia students on Friday staged a classroom walkout organized by the youth-led March for Our Lives "to demand a future free from gun violence" following the September 4 mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, the deadliest such event in the state's history. "Across Georgia, Republican leaders—like those who …

Six years after Parkland, a Florida sheriff on rethinking school shooting prevention
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Six years after Parkland, a Florida sheriff on rethinking school shooting prevention

NPR  

Six years after Parkland, a Florida sheriff on rethinking school shooting prevention A Georgia 14-year-old has been charged with four counts of murder after a fatal shooting at his high school. This has raised a spotlight on how authorities investigate online threats to schools, which is an issue Pinellas County, Fla., Sheriff Bob Gualtieri knows all too well. In the …

US News: Deadly Georgia School Shooting claims 4 lives, injures 9; Biden and Harris condemn violence
3 months, 2 weeks ago

US News: Deadly Georgia School Shooting claims 4 lives, injures 9; Biden and Harris condemn violence

Live Mint  

Four individuals, including two students, were killed in a school shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia. The White House is calling for tighter gun regulations amid ongoing concerns about gun violence in the US At least four people, including two students, were killed and nine others injured when a fellow student opened fire at Apalachee High School in Winder, …

"I’d like to see it gone": Teardown begins on Parkland shooting site
6 months, 1 week ago

"I’d like to see it gone": Teardown begins on Parkland shooting site

Salon  

Families of the victims of one of the most horrific shootings in U.S. history watched as demolition began on a building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and teachers were murdered in 2018. A Supreme Court ruling Friday morning ended a 2018 federal regulation regulating the use of bump stocks, to the dismay of …

Tennessee school shooting: Thousands to form a human chain to honor The Covenant School gun violence victims
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Tennessee school shooting: Thousands to form a human chain to honor The Covenant School gun violence victims

CNN  

CNN — In Nashville, one year after a shooting at a private school took six lives, thousands will come together to honor victims of gun violence and provide a visible demonstration in support of reform. About 13,000 people are expected to form a four-mile human chain Wednesday beginning at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt where some of the …

What does Florida’s red flag law say, and could it have thwarted the Jacksonville shooter?
1 year, 3 months ago

What does Florida’s red flag law say, and could it have thwarted the Jacksonville shooter?

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Police in Florida took a 15-year-old into custody six years ago for threatening to take his own life, though he was soon released following an involuntary mental health examination, according to official records. Saturday’s shooting raises questions about whether so-called red flag laws in Florida and other states are used effectively. Florida passed wide-ranging gun-control legislation in 2018, …

Mass shootings spur divergent laws as states split between gun rights and control
1 year, 4 months ago

Mass shootings spur divergent laws as states split between gun rights and control

LA Times  

People hold hands at the state Capitol in Nashville before a special session of the Tennessee Legislature on public safety Monday. Tennessee’s Republican-led Legislature is meeting in special session this week to consider a package of public safety proposals, including some stemming from a deadly shooting at a Nashville elementary school earlier this year. More than half the states have …

Tennessee governor outlines agenda for special session in wake of Nashville school shooting
1 year, 4 months ago

Tennessee governor outlines agenda for special session in wake of Nashville school shooting

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping list of public safety issues he wants lawmakers to address during an upcoming special session prompted by a shocking Nashville school shooting earlier this year that resulted in the deaths of three children and three adults. “As our nation faces evolving public safety threats, Tennessee remains vigilant and …

Tennessee law changes starting July 1 will restrict trans health care, fund more school safety
1 year, 5 months ago

Tennessee law changes starting July 1 will restrict trans health care, fund more school safety

The Independent  

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Michigan governor signs red flag gun law as questions linger over enforcement
1 year, 7 months ago

Michigan governor signs red flag gun law as questions linger over enforcement

Associated Press  

ROYAL OAK, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gave final approval Monday afternoon to a red flag law that aims to keep firearms away from those at risk of harming themselves or others as the state grapples with ways to slow gun violence in the wake of its second mass school shooting. Michigan joined Minnesota as the second state in …

After school shooting, Tennessee governor signs bill to shield gun firms further against lawsuits
1 year, 7 months ago

After school shooting, Tennessee governor signs bill to shield gun firms further against lawsuits

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on additional protections for gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers against lawsuits within a bill that lawmakers passed after a deadly school shooting in March. The state Senate gave final passage to the bill in mid-April, just weeks after the March 27 shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville …

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signs school safety bill after Nashville shooting
1 year, 7 months ago

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signs school safety bill after Nashville shooting

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday signed into law legislation designed to place more school resource officers in Tennessee public and private schools, funnel additional money into school security upgrades, and require every school to submit annual safety plans to the state. The new law is among the few changes the Republican governor and the GOP-dominated Legislature agreed …

Tenn. lawmakers' race to adjourn complicates gun safety push
1 year, 8 months ago

Tenn. lawmakers' race to adjourn complicates gun safety push

The Independent  

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As shootings hit close to home, govs wrestle with next steps
1 year, 8 months ago

As shootings hit close to home, govs wrestle with next steps

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Bill Lee on Tuesday called …

‘Do your job’: Demands for change after latest US mass shooting
1 year, 8 months ago

‘Do your job’: Demands for change after latest US mass shooting

Al Jazeera  

Demonstrators protested in Nashville, site of latest attack, as tempers flared in Washington, DC, over gun law reform. Monday’s killings in Nashville prompted US President Joe Biden to renew calls to tighten federal gun controls, with the White House tweeting on Thursday: “It’s time for Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines”. Watch the moment US Democratic congressman Jamaal …

Mass shootings seldom shift partisan policies despite outcry
1 year, 8 months ago

Mass shootings seldom shift partisan policies despite outcry

Associated Press  

Public outrage is swift following mass shootings, such as the killing of six people at a Christian elementary school in Nashville. TENNESSEE SHOOTING RESPONSE Following Monday’s shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, tensions ran high among state lawmakers meeting across town in the state Capitol. After another shooting injured two administrators a Denver high school last week, Democratic majorities …

Explained: What America can do to save its children from gun violence
1 year, 8 months ago

Explained: What America can do to save its children from gun violence

Firstpost  

For some, Monday’s massacre at the Covenant School in Nashville confirms the need to ban assault rifles, while others call for increased security at schools. Here is a look at some of the options being discussed after Monday’s massacre at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, from gun control proposals to armoured safe rooms on school grounds. “So, it’s a …

After school shooting, Tenn. gun laws likely to remain lax
1 year, 8 months ago

After school shooting, Tenn. gun laws likely to remain lax

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As Nashville residents reeled from a fatal grade school shooting that left six dead, a federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age for Tennesseans to carry handguns publicly without a permit to 18 — just two years after a new law set the age at 21. “Let’s not let another preventable tragedy unfold …

Highland Park survivor at Nashville shooting scene interrupts Fox News cameras to call for gun reform
1 year, 8 months ago

Highland Park survivor at Nashville shooting scene interrupts Fox News cameras to call for gun reform

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It has overtaken cars.” The woman said she …

Nashville School Shooting: Audrey Hale Joins List of Ex-Students who Targeted their Alma Mater
1 year, 8 months ago

Nashville School Shooting: Audrey Hale Joins List of Ex-Students who Targeted their Alma Mater

News 18  

Audrey Hale on Monday joined several other shooters who attacked staff and students of their former school. The Sandy Hook School shooting, which is the fourth deadliest mass shooting in the world, was also perpetrated by a former student, Adam Lanza. The 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida’s Parkland was also perpetrated by a former student, 19-year-old …

Nashville shooting: A look back at the worst gun violence in US schools
1 year, 8 months ago

Nashville shooting: A look back at the worst gun violence in US schools

Firstpost  

A rampage at Nashville’s Covenant School that killed three children and three adults is only the latest in a tragic and relentless cycle of US school mass shootings. Here are America’s deadliest classroom gun massacres dating back to the late ’90s Washington: A rampage Monday at Nashville’s Covenant School that left three children and three adults dead — plus the …

Nashville police search for clues after latest US school shooting
1 year, 8 months ago

Nashville police search for clues after latest US school shooting

Al Jazeera  

Police release body camera footage of attack at Christian primary school that left three children, three adults dead. Police on Tuesday were poring over what they described as a “manifesto” left by the attacker following the mass shooting at the Covenant School in the city’s leafy Green Hills community. Among the other evidence being assessed on Tuesday were writings by …

Editorial: Nashville and a nation of mass shooting trauma
1 year, 8 months ago

Editorial: Nashville and a nation of mass shooting trauma

LA Times  

Another 200 children became survivors of gun violence Monday, this time in Nashville, when a 28-year-old armed with high-powered weapons broke into their school and opened fire, killing three 9-year-old classmates and three adult staff members. Opinion Editorial: National suicide plays out one murderous mass shooting at a time Perhaps it’s the fate of the United States to watch its …

Mass school shootings kill 175 from Columbine to Nashville
1 year, 8 months ago

Mass school shootings kill 175 from Columbine to Nashville

Associated Press  

Mass shooters have killed hundreds of people throughout U.S. history in realms like stores, theaters and workplaces, but it is in schools and colleges where the carnage reverberates perhaps most keenly — places filled with children of tender ages, older students aspiring to new heights and the teachers planting the seeds of knowledge, their journeys all cut short. OXFORD HIGH …

Three children, three adults killed in Nashville school shooting
1 year, 8 months ago

Three children, three adults killed in Nashville school shooting

Al Jazeera  

Deadly attack by 28-year-old local woman, who was fatally shot by police, renews calls for stricter gun laws in US. Three children and three adults have been killed after a woman opened fire at a primary school in Nashville, Tennessee, local officials said, in the latest instance of deadly gun violence in the United States. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department …

Michigan Senate passes gun bills to address mass shootings
1 year, 9 months ago

Michigan Senate passes gun bills to address mass shootings

Associated Press  

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Democrats took their first steps in passing a sweeping 11-bill gun safety package Thursday as red flag laws and requirements for safe storage and universal background checks all cleared the Senate along party lines. Two school mass shootings in 15 months, including last month’s Michigan State University shooting that took place less than four miles from …

School shooting survivors call on Missouri lawmakers to act
1 year, 9 months ago

School shooting survivors call on Missouri lawmakers to act

Associated Press  

— Survivors of a deadly school shooting in St. Louis on Tuesday shared art, music and stories about gun violence at the Missouri Capitol while advocating for lawmakers to act. We deserve action.” A 19-year-old gunman killed two people and injured seven others in an Oct. 24 shooting at the Central Visual Arts and Performing Arts High School, which Love …

Joe Biden demands Congress to act on gun violence after latest mass shooting
1 year, 10 months ago

Joe Biden demands Congress to act on gun violence after latest mass shooting

Firstpost  

As the leader of a nation plagued by daily shootings, Biden said he had promised the state’s Democratic governor the ‘deployment of all necessary federal law enforcement’ Washington: US President Joe Biden called on Congress Tuesday to act against America’s epidemic of gun violence, one day after a new massacre on a Michigan university campus killed three people and injured …

Michigan governor calls for action after university shooting
1 year, 10 months ago

Michigan governor calls for action after university shooting

Al Jazeera  

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has called for action against gun violence in the United States after a gunman killed three students and injured five others at Michigan State University in East Lansing. “Congress must do something and enact common-sense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, closing loopholes in our …

Five years after Parkland, school shootings haven’t stopped — and kill more people
1 year, 10 months ago

Five years after Parkland, school shootings haven’t stopped — and kill more people

Salon  

In the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting on Valentine's Day 2018, many Americans hoped that, finally, something would be done to address the problem of gun violence in the nation's schools. School shootings got more common, not rarer, after Parkland Since Parkland, there have been over 900 shootings in K-12 school settings according to our data. In …

Red flag laws get little use as shootings, gun deaths soar
2 years, 3 months ago

Red flag laws get little use as shootings, gun deaths soar

Associated Press  

Chicago is one of the nation’s gun violence hotspots and a seemingly ideal place to employ Illinois’ “red flag” law that allows police to step in and take firearms away from people who threaten to kill. “It’s too small a pebble to make a ripple,” Duke University sociologist Jeffrey Swanson, who has studied red flag gun surrender orders across the …

Police didn’t stop Parkland or Uvalde shootings, and often discriminate against students. Why did Biden give them $300m?
2 years, 3 months ago

Police didn’t stop Parkland or Uvalde shootings, and often discriminate against students. Why did Biden give them $300m?

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Following Columbine, and as we’ve seen a number …

Death penalty trial of Parkland high school shooter begins
2 years, 5 months ago

Death penalty trial of Parkland high school shooter begins

Al Jazeera  

The months-long US trial will decide whether Nikolas Cruz will be executed or sentenced to life without parole. Opening arguments have begun in the penalty phase of the trial of Nikolas Cruz, the man who killed 17 people at a Florida high school in 2018 – one of the deadliest school shootings in United States history. Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty …

The Parkland school shooter faces the death penalty as his trial begins
2 years, 5 months ago

The Parkland school shooter faces the death penalty as his trial begins

NPR  

The Parkland school shooter faces the death penalty as his trial begins Enlarge this image toggle caption Wilfredo Lee/AP Wilfredo Lee/AP The sentencing trial for the gunman who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., more than four years ago is set to begin on Monday. After nearly three months of jury selection, jurors must …

Bloodshed In Buffalo And Uvalde Have Sparked A Wave Of State Gun Control Bills
2 years, 6 months ago

Bloodshed In Buffalo And Uvalde Have Sparked A Wave Of State Gun Control Bills

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING After years of inaction, Congress is on the brink of passing legislation that would toughen gun laws. That said, state action is where it happens.” The proposal in Congress, made public on Tuesday, aims to close the “boyfriend loophole” and incentivize states to implement red flag laws. Congress inching toward gun reform, however, pales in comparison to …

America’s deadly weekend of more mass shootings raise stakes for Senate gun talks
2 years, 6 months ago

America’s deadly weekend of more mass shootings raise stakes for Senate gun talks

CNN  

CNN — In South Carolina and Texas, victims were shot at a high school graduation party. Just America going about its normal business this weekend under the deadly daily shadow of gun violence, as a staggering 10 mass shootings since Friday deepened trauma from recent massacres at a Buffalo supermarket, a Texas elementary school and a mass shooting at a …

As senators seek common ground on guns, 'red flag' laws become a focus
2 years, 6 months ago

As senators seek common ground on guns, 'red flag' laws become a focus

NPR  

As senators seek common ground on guns, 'red flag' laws become a focus Enlarge this image toggle caption Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images In what might be characterized as an exercise in the art of the possible, a bipartisan group of senators led by John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., have spent the past …

Minnesota students walk out to demand gun changes
2 years, 6 months ago

Minnesota students walk out to demand gun changes

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds of students walked out of class Tuesday and gathered in downtown Minneapolis to demand state legislators adopt tougher gun laws in the wake of last week’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The Star Tribune reported the students walked out around 12:30 p.m. and gathered in Gold Medal Park. They demanded officials create a …

NRA opens gun convention in Texas after school massacre
2 years, 6 months ago

NRA opens gun convention in Texas after school massacre

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The NRA said in an online statement that …

NRA stages big gun show in Texas days after school massacre
2 years, 6 months ago

NRA stages big gun show in Texas days after school massacre

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” — and deflect any blame for — the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The NRA said in an online …

Political realities have stopped legislative action after school shootings
2 years, 6 months ago

Political realities have stopped legislative action after school shootings

NPR  

Political realities have stopped legislative action after school shootings Enlarge this image toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday was the second-deadliest school shooting since 1970. But in the aftermath of Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Hook and the nearly 1,000 other school shootings since 2012, advocates for nationwide gun …

States divided along partisan lines in response to shootings
2 years, 6 months ago

States divided along partisan lines in response to shootings

Associated Press  

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Gov. Their jeering turned to applause when Republican Rep. Terry Roy said voters don’t want further gun control: “We should not ever, ever use tragedy to push legislation,” he said. An effort on Wednesday by Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled Legislature to ban owning, selling or making high-capacity, semi-automatic firearms also failed, as House Republicans displayed …

For ‘lockdown generation’ school shootings are their reality
2 years, 6 months ago

For ‘lockdown generation’ school shootings are their reality

Associated Press  

A day after the school massacre in Texas, Ohio teacher Renee Coley thought her sixth grade students would need time to process, so she opened class with a video about the news and started a discussion. “They’ve processed this so many times.. It’s just another news day for them.” The interaction highlights how students across America have grown up numb …

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