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School Shootings

Christopher Craft Surrenders: Bob Hess Released By Pine Plains Hostage Taker

AP | CHRIS CAROLA | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

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PINE PLAINS, N.Y. — Upset by the treatment of U.S. military personnel, a 42-year-old father of an Army veteran sneaked a disassembled shotgun in...

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Growing Up In the Shadow of Columbine

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Erin Bilir grew up in Littleton, Colorado and remembers the day of the shootings and how it changed everything for kids in that town.

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Gunman Shoots Up Greek School, Injuring 3 And Killing Self

AP | DEREK GATOPOULOS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS | Posted 05.11.2009 | World

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ATHENS, Greece — A teenage gunman who wounded three people at a college in Greece and killed himself had warned of the attack hours earlier on a...

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Terrorist Without a Cause

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 05.06.2009 | Living

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Barry Michael Cooper

I wrote this essay after a bloodbath at Santana High School. Fifteen-year-old Charles Andrew Williams shot 15 people. Two of them died. He is now serving a sentence of 50 years-to-life. This is his story.

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The Same Old Story

Josh Horwitz | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

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Josh Horwitz

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.

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Adkisson's Assault on a Unitarian Church Stirs Memories, Raises Questions

Jonathan Fast | Posted 08.09.2008 | Media

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Jonathan Fast

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.

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Same Gun Dealer Sold to 2 Campus Killers

AP | SCOTT BAUER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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MADISON, Wis. — The online gun dealer who sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter said it was an unnerving coincidence that he also sold hand...

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Illinois Shooting Tragedy Pushes Election Off The Top, Mostly

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Gun control is still not an issue. Will the fact that a kid on medication could purchase guns, walk into a lecture hall and use them change that? That will depend -- on whether the candidates make it an issue, and on whether the media asks them about it.

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