We need Congress to act. Now. . . . Congress must pass commonsense gun safety laws: Universal background checks. A national red flag law. A ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. . . . President Joe Biden, "Congress must pass commonsense gun safety laws:...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. It also appeared at The Daily Signal, Understandably, we want to blame someone besides the 14-year-old who murdered four people last week at Apalachee High School in Georgia. People are shocked and upset that the...
Apalachee High School in Winder in Barrow County was put on a hard lockdown Wednesday morning because of a shooting incident, according to officials. Tragically, there are casualties. As we have pointed out many times, all the school attacks where anyone has been...
When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our country has experienced a staggering 650 mass shootings,”...
On Monday, the St Louis high school called the police about an active shooter at 9:11 a.m., with police arriving at the school four minutes later. After another eight minutes, the police engaged in a gunfight and secured him. While there were seven security personnel...
This attack was worse than any school shooting in the US. Only the Bath School bombing in 1927 had more murders, with 45 people dying. Thirty-four people were murdered at the school, plus the man also murdered his wife and child at home. Thirty-seven people have been...
Video of the aftermath of Izhevsk, Russia school shooting The most deadly school shooting was the Beslan School siege in Russia on September 1, 2004, which left 385 dead and another 783 wounded. At the end of this article below are a few recent attacks on...
Rasmussen Reports has a new national survey of 1,000 American Adults on August 21-22, 2022, showing that by a 49%-to-37% margin, Americans support armed teachers to stop school shootings. This is a significant change from their February 28, 2018 survey, where...
A new YouGov survey of 1,500 U.S. adult citizens was conducted from May 28th to 31st. The survey has some interesting results regarding whether people favor arming teachers (pp. 134-5). All Americans except for Democrats, liberals, and blacks favor arming teachers and...
A shooting at a Texas elementary school left 14 children and one teacher murdered. While about 30% of school districts in Texas 2020 had armed teachers and staff, unfortunately, the Robb Elementary School in the Uvalde, Texas CISD doesn't appear to be one of...
An attack at the Timberview High School in Arlington, Texas left four people injured. The attack appeared to be different than the typical school shooting that gets news coverage in that it probably involved some type of gang activity. The attacker, Timothy George...
On January 10th, an 11-year-old last shot seven people and then committed suicide at the Cervantes de Torreón elementary school in Torreón, Mexico. Ramos shot dead María Medina, a 50-year-old English teacher, last Friday at Miguel Cervantes School in Torreón,...