The Gun Debate 1 Year After Newtown Assessing Six Key Claims About Gun Background Checks by Arkadi Gerney and Chelsea Parsons | December 13, 2013 “The tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, reignited the debate on whether to strengthen federal and state gun laws. Soon after the massacre, the top priority for advocates for… Continue Reading
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The Geography of U.S. Gun Violence
Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center, Salve Regina University: America’s regions are poles apart when it comes to gun deaths and the cultural and ideological forces that drive them. By Colin Woodard: “Whenever you happen to read this article a chilling mass shooting has probably been in U.S. headlines recently. When I started writing this… Continue Reading
Billions spent on armored school doors, bulletproof whiteboards and secret snipers
Washington Post: “Although school security has grown into a $2.7 billion market — an estimate that does not account for the billions more spent on armed campus police officers — little research has been done on which safety measures do and do not protect students from gun violence. Earlier this fall, The Washington Post sent… Continue Reading
This is America: 9 out of 10 public schools now hold mass shooting drills for students
Read this and weep – and then get busy – please: How “active shooter” drills became normal for a generation of American schoolchildren. “…Since Columbine, 32 states have passed laws requiring schools to conduct lockdown drills to keep students safe from intruders. Some states went even further after 20 children died in Newtown, Connecticut, in… Continue Reading
NIH emails reveal divisions over renewal of gun research program
Science: “For weeks, questions have swirled around the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) decision to shelve a firearms research program that was launched at the urging of former President Barack Obama’s administration after 20 children and six educators were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, late in 2012. Among other… Continue Reading
Vox data scientist interactive map of mass shootings since Sandy Hook
Vox – After Sandy Hook we said never again. And then we let 1,000 mass shootings happen. Updated by German Lopez and Soo Oh on June 13, 2016, 11:03 a.m. ET “In December 2012, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 children, six adults, and himself. Since then,… Continue Reading
Mass Murder with Firearms: Incidents and Victims, 1999-2013
CRS Report – Mass Murder with Firearms: Incidents and Victims, 1999-2013. William J. Krouse Specialist in Domestic Security and Crime Policy, Daniel J. Richardson, Research Assistant. July 30, 2015. “In the wake of tragedy in Newtown CT, Congress defined “mass killings” as “3 or more killings in a single incident” (P.L. 112-265). Any consideration of… Continue Reading
School Shootings in America Since Sandy Hook
“Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities. Gun violence touches every town in America. For too long, change has been thwarted by the Washington gun lobby and by leaders who refuse to take common-sense steps that will save lives. But something is changing. More than 3… Continue Reading
Continued Bipartisan Support for Expanded Background Checks on Gun Sales
“Two years after the failure of Senate legislation to expand background checks on gun purchases, the public continues to overwhelmingly support making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks. Currently, 85% of Americans – including large majorities of Democrats (88%) and Republicans (79%) – favor expanded background checks, little changed… Continue Reading
Paper – The Shooting Cycle – A Study of Mass Shootings in America
The Shooting Cycle – Josh Blackman, South Texas College of Law; Shelby Baird, Yale University, January 5, 2014. Connecticut Law Review, Vol 46, 2014. “The pattern is a painfully familiar one. A gunman opens fire in a public place, killing many innocent victims. After this tragedy, support for gun control surges. With a closing window for reform, politicians and activists quickly… Continue Reading
Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Reports
“The reports below document the many stages of the investigation of the December 14, 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Administratively, the investigation consists of three separate case numbers. CFS 1200704559 is the primary investigation, CFS 1200704597 is the processing of the scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and CFS 1200705354 is the investigation of the… Continue Reading
Kenneth Feinberg: The Nation’s Leading Expert in Picking up the Pieces
After the tragedies that come all too often—9/11, the Gulf, Newtown—the call goes out to Ken Feinberg to do what no man can possibly do: ease the pain by Chris Jones. Published in the January 2014 issue of Esquire. “We live in the age of Feinberg. Between September 11 and today, he has overseen the accounting… Continue Reading
