The centerpiece of Fred D'Aguiar's new collection of poetry, Continental Shelf, "Elegies" remembers those victims of the shooting at Virginia Tech, where D'Aguiar continues to teach.
Letterman's joke about Palin's daughter wasn't the first time a comedian has been accused of telling a joke that could be blamed for the possibility of instigating a criminal act.
Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. When the tragedy in Littleton shook the na...
Erin Bilir grew up in Littleton, Colorado and remembers the day of the shootings and how it changed everything for kids in that town.
The test: TeenScreen. Its mission: to test all American school children. The treatment? Psychotropic drugs that carry the all too real risks of suicide, suicidal ideation, homicide and homicidal ideation.
Recently we learned that a convicted killer in one of the most notorious school massacres in American history tried to get a permit to carry a conceal...
Despite this country's dire situation, health care doesn't win elections, because health care problems never feel as immediate as other threats.
If the cases of Seung-Hui Cho and Steven Kazmierczak have taught us anything, it's that red flags do appear consistently among shooters. What is needed is a screening process.
Adkisson was a man for whom life no longer seemed worth living. School shooters reach this state after years of being bullied and abused, abused physically or sexually, and rejected by peers and girlfriends.
This story of last year's Northern Illinois University shooting raises a lot of troubling issues, one of which is why we make it so easy for dangerous people to get guns.
The gun lobby made "guns-on-campus" bills a big priority across America this year, and what do they have to show for it? A goose egg.
We must understand that many bullies also are victims. Some children and teens that torment others are being mistreated themselves.
None of the behavior exhibited in the Wolfe story the should come as a surprise. We know that victims of bullying are often bullies themselves, and vice versa.
What makes Billy Wolfe's case unusual was not the frequency or brutality of the beatings, but the fact that Billy's parents decided to sue the parents of one of the bullies.
If the Supreme Court upholds the D.C. handgun ban, it will keep in place a crucial measure for the protection of the health and safety of our children.
In a week where reports of killings were so frequent and senseless, the most puzzling case was that of Steve Kazmierczak.
How could anyone in their right mind believe that those who authored the founding documents of this country intended that fire power be readily available to morons and maniacs alike?
"A deranged gunman attacked a throng of unsuspecting people yesterday, killing some, wounding others." Sound familiar? It should. It seems to happen about every two or three months in America.
Every few months we are subjected to the same horrifying narrative, and every few months we mourn, and move on. We seem to have become consigned to the suicide killers among us.
What seems perplexing to those who were children during the placid 1950s is how easily children come by guns.
This Veterans Day, after we raise the flag, we must...
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