Mass Shootings

A Florida School Received a Threat. Did a Red Flag Law Prevent a Shooting?

The requests were granted. But the results of the search were not what the detective expected. Memories of Parkland Nationally, more than 20,000 petitions for extreme risk protection orders were filed from 1999 to 2021, according to data collected by Everytown for Gun Safety, an advocacy group. A vast majority of those petitions — more […]

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Parkland Gunman Gets 34 Life Sentences

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Brimming with rage, disappointment and grief, relatives of the 17 people fatally shot at a Florida high school four years ago confronted the gunman at a charged two-day sentencing hearing in which they repeatedly denounced the criminal justice system for sparing his life. For the first time since the 2018 mass […]

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‘I Want You to Hear This’: A Sandy Hook Mother Confronts Alex Jones

AUSTIN, Texas — For 90 searing minutes in a courtroom on Tuesday, a Sandy Hook mother brought the conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones face-to-face with the havoc she said his lies about the mass shooting that killed her son had wrought on her family and on the national discourse. “Truth — truth is so vital to […]

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Lies for Profit: Can Sandy Hook Parents Shut Alex Jones Down?

AUSTIN, Texas — When viral lies harm private people, are the courts their best refuge? A trial to decide how much the conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones must pay a Sandy Hook family for defaming them attempts to answer that question. Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of Jesse Lewis, 6, who died at Sandy […]

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House Passes Assault Weapons Ban That Is Doomed in Senate

WASHINGTON — Responding to a string of mass shootings, a divided House passed a ban on assault weapons on Friday, moving over the near-unanimous opposition of Republicans to reinstate a prohibition that expired nearly two decades ago. Speaker Nancy Pelosi described the measure, which passed 217 to 213, as a “crucial step in our ongoing […]

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Assault Weapons Makers Pulled In Over $1 Billion as Violence Surged, Report Says

The report showed that, as the country has struggled to cope with an epidemic of gun violence that has plagued schools, churches, supermarkets, concerts and shopping malls, firearms manufacturers have been enjoying ballooning proceeds from the sale of the weapons used to carry out mass shootings. Daniel Defense’s revenue from AR-15-style rifles tripled from 2019 […]

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Uvalde Teacher Recounts Harrowing Assault Inside Classroom

UVALDE, Texas — The first shots came from the hallway outside the classroom. Arnulfo Reyes, a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary School, quickly remembered the active shooter training he had rehearsed so many times and told his 11 students to lie under their desks and “act like you are asleep.” A black shadow appeared at […]

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What We Know About the Highland Park Shooting

A gunman shooting from a rooftop killed seven people and wounded dozens more during a Fourth of July celebration in Highland Park, Ill., on Monday morning. A 21-year-old man who was taken into custody Monday evening after an extensive manhunt was charged on Tuesday with seven counts of first-degree murder. Here’s what we know so […]

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