School Shootings and Armed Attacks
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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School Searched 6-Year-Old’s Backpack Before Newport News Shooting, Officials Say
Abigail Zwerner, the teacher, was in the middle of a routine lesson in her first-grade classroom when, the authorities said, the boy suddenly pulled out the gun and aimed it at her. At the time of the shooting, “the firearm was displayed from his person, not from his backpack,” said Steve Drew, the chief of […]
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6-Year-Old Shoots Teacher at Virginia Elementary School, Police Say
A 6-year-old first-grader at an elementary school in Newport News, Va., shot a teacher on Friday afternoon during an altercation in a classroom, the authorities said, leaving her with “life-threatening” injuries and renewing calls for greater gun restrictions. The boy, who shot the teacher once with a handgun at about 2 p.m., was in police […]
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After Virginia Teacher Is Shot, Many Questions and a Murky Legal Path
Among them: How did a 6-year-old child obtain access to a gun? The authorities have not publicly identified the child or the teacher, detailed the nature of the altercation or offered information about whether the gun was taken from home, school or elsewhere. The boy was in police custody Friday evening, the authorities said, but […]
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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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Schools Are Spending Billions on High-Tech Defense for Mass Shootings
Reid Bauer was finishing lunch period last year at his middle school in the Atlanta area when an alarm began blaring through the halls, warning of an emergency. Reid, then in sixth grade, had never heard the school’s “code red” alert before. It was part of a new $5 million crisis management service that the […]
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Gun Sellers Stoke Fears to Boost Weapon Sales
Such imagery has since become stock-in-trade. When Brian Kemp ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, one tongue-in-cheek ad showed him in a room full of firearms, leveling a shotgun near a young man interested in dating his daughter. It generated criticism, including from Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in […]
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Democrats Failed to Extend Assault Weapons Ban in 2004. They Regret It.
“It was hard to get the band back together,” said Adam Eisgrau, a Feinstein staff aide who helped draft the ban. “One of the things we were able to do in ’94 was to create consensus against the Rambo-ification of what would otherwise be a standard hunting gun,” he said. “At the time, law enforcement […]
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As Survivors Demand Action, House Passes Gun Bill Doomed in the Senate
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday voted nearly along party lines to bar the sale of semiautomatic weapons to people under the age of 21 and ban the sale of large-capacity magazines, acting as traumatized parents of victims and survivors of mass shootings made wrenching appeals for Congress to act on gun violence. The vote […]
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