Prevention methods like lockdown drills do not account for many scenarios, including the likely case that a school shooter is a former or current student.
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Active armed offender situations are always tense and fluid. Even more so when the incident occurs in a public space.
Evidence shows that 20 years on, Florida’s stand your ground law hasn’t made communities in the state any safer.
Crime stats show how Australia’s efforts to restrict weapon use has been largely successful. But more can be done.
The use of 3D-printed guns in criminal and violent activities is likely to continue to increase. And governments and police will continue to have trouble regulating them.
The US homicide rate is far above the rate of other nations.
Mexico claims that US firearm manufacturers are fueling illegal cross-border gun trafficking and violent crime abroad.
Laws shielding from prosecution those who kill and maim citing self-defense have spread across the states and may be fueling a ‘shoot now, think later’ mindset among homeowners.
A gunman at Michigan State University shot dead three people before taking his own life. Two criminologists explain how the incident fits a pattern of campus attacks.
President Biden outlined his achievements in key policy areas and sketched out his plans for the rest of his term in office.
Mass shooters over the age of 60 are rare, but often differ from younger gunmen in motives and actions prior to their attack.
Once seen as the Chinese Beverly Hills, Monterey Park is now seen as Asian America’s ‘town square’ – the impact of a mass shooting there will ripple across the country.
At least six people have been killed in an attack at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia. It happened amid a surge of mass shootings in the US.
The suspect is facing five counts of bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, in addition to murder charges. But in Australia, the victims and their families would have no such recourse.
Colorado is one of 19 states that have laws in place to prevent individuals believed to pose a threat from obtaining guns. But a preventive order needs to be petitioned before it can be issued.
Two states had guns directly on the ballot in midterm election initiatives. Voters moved state laws in opposite directions.
On Oct. 24, while a teenage gunman was pleading guilty for a deadly school incident in Michigan, another school shooting was taking place in St. Louis.
Recent news reports highlight rising rates of gun crime in two-thirds of England and Wales’s police jurisdictions.
Shinzo Abe’s murder is the latest political attack in Japan, a country which has strict gun laws.
The share price of gun-makers Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger both jumped after the Uvalde massacre. In the past, gun-makers were punished after a shooting, but things have changed.
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Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Hamline University
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Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice and Creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, University of Central Florida
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Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society; Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University
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Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research; Adjunct Professor, School of Social Science, UNSW
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