“Mass Shooting”

After the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, schools around the country pledged to boost security measures and increased the presence of law enforcement on campus — partly to reassure parents and students.

But police inside schools can make some students more uneasy, not less. Especially for Black students and other students of color, their personal experiences with policing can leave them feeling unsafe and alienated from school when they see officers on campus.

Cops get in the way of the mayhem – Teachers, parents want real discipline as NYC student suspensions fall

At least two states are pressing forward with legislation that would allow trained school teachers to carry firearms on public school grounds in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

While arming teachers has faced widespread hostility from gun control organizations and national teachers unions such as the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, allowing teachers to carry firearms in schools was among the recommendations made by several school safety commissions formed in the aftermath of school shootings in 2018.

Three dead and 11 injured in Philadelphia mass shooting

A shooting in Philadelphia left at least three people dead and 11 others injured, local authorities said.

Police officers saw multiple gunmen shooting into a crowd after hearing multiple gunshots just before midnight on Saturday evening. At least three of the victims, two men and a woman, died from their injuries as of Sunday morning, according to NBC Philadelphia.

A Texas inmate who escaped custody three weeks ago is suspected of slaughtering a 66-year-old man and four of his grandsons hours before cops shot the fugitive dead on Thursday.

Gonzalo Lopez, 46, died in a shootout with cops on Thursday in Jourdantown, Texas outside of San Antonio while he was driving a pickup owned by the granddad.

Grandfather Mark Collins and his grandchildren were found dead in a cabin in rural Centerville, 100 miles outside of Houston and more than 200 miles from where Lopez met his end, reports said.

A mom who was handcuffed by cops for trying to save her children during the Texas school shooting has blasted police for threatening her for talking to the media.

Angeli Rose Gomez slammed officers for warning her with a probation violation for obstruction of justice over her interviews with journalists.

She said she was called by an officer who said she would be hit with legal trouble over a charge against her from over a decade ago.

Politico published an interview last Friday with two criminologists who have studied mass shootings. Jillian Peterson is a professor of criminology at Hamline University and James Densley is a professor of criminal justice at Metro State University. Together, they’ve created a database of mass shootings since 1966 along with a detailed life history of 180 shooters. Their research points to a number of commonalities among them. Right away, they highlighted the role of the media and social contagion in these events, suggesting a connection between the Buffalo shooting and the one in Uvalde.

Tucker Carlson almost said it.  He went right up to the edge and then drew back.  He wheeled the cannon on stage, but he did not fire it.

Carlson almost blurted out the most taboo truth in Washington, the unutterable heresy that the political class suppresses more ruthlessly than any other.  He asked us to consider — after eliminating all the standard leftist cliches and a few rightist ones — why do these young shooters keep committing mass murder?  What characteristic do they all share?  What is going on here, and why can we not even discuss it?

A deranged gunman with a rifle and a handgun who killed four people at an Oklahoma medical building targeted a doctor who previously operated on him “and anyone who got in his way,” authorities said Thursday.

The gunman, identified as Michael Louis, opened fire at about 5 p.m. Wednesday at an orthopedic office on the second floor of the Natalie Medical Building at Saint Francis Health System in Tulsa, Police Chief Wendell Franklin told reporters at a press conference.

A child smearing her friend’s blood on herself in an attempt to play dead. Agonised parents waiting to learn if their children had survived. The death of teacher Irma Garcia’s husband immediately after she was shot and killed, leaving their four children orphaned. It has been more than a week since Salvador Ramos stormed Robb Elementary School in Uvalde armed with a semiautomatic rifle, but the true nature of the tragedy — and the horror — is still coming into focus.

She has an incentive to lie here, of course.

But so do the police. After all, if a teacher is at fault for propping open a door that’s supposed to stay locked then the school district and its police force are less at fault for failing to properly secure the building.

Why did it take cops more than an hour to storm the classroom and kill the gunman?

Everything about the Robb Elementary school massacre is grim. Nineteen children and two teachers shot dead. The husband of one of the teachers dying from a heart attack two days later. Then there are the bone-chilling stories of how the kids who were targeted in this barbaric assault, mostly aged 10 and 11, tried to avoid being killed. One reportedly smeared herself with some of her friend’s blood and then played dead. This was a truly hellish event.

Incredibly, there is another layer to this terrible act – the alarming failures of the authorities. On top of the moral vacuum in which the shooter was operating, there was the bureaucratic disarray of those charged with protecting citizens from such wicked individuals. Children were stuck in the classroom with the killer, with the mass murderer of their friends, for more than an hour before police entered and shot the gunman dead. This is one of the most extraordinary facts from that dreadful day in Uvalde. It is difficult to make sense of it.

At this point we all know the story. Police followed the Uvalde shooter into the school but after a brief shootout, the local police chief (wrongly) decided he was a barricaded suspect and there was no pressing need to enter the room. Meanwhile, children inside the room were calling 911 multiple times.

One of the downsides of a 24/7 news cycle is that it allows far more time for media types to fill airspace with bad takes, as was recently the case during Univision’s coverage of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

The aftermath of yet another soul-rending attack on an elementary school, this time in Uvalde, Texas, has left little time for reflection on just why these horrific incidents continue to proliferate in the United States. Grappling with the grief attendant upon learning details of the worst K-12 mass shooting since Newtown—with 19 precious grade-schoolers and two teachers senselessly slaughtered—can be all-consuming.

Some of them: Schools can no longer be soft targets, institutionalization will need to come into play, and police will need to relearn what their job is.

Another school shooting, another horror that on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, took the lives of nineteen children and two adults.

The reason these monstrous crimes continue to happen is that America refuses to learn the lessons that reality forces upon us, again and again.

We, as American citizens, are failing to perform the duty of protecting our children. In order to perform that duty, we need to take action, not just mouth “thoughts and prayers.”