By: Madeline Olds, Web Editor On December 14, 2012, a shooter entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and committed one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States, with twenty-six victims.[1] It is the fourth deadliest shooting in the United States and the deadliest shooting to occur within an elementary school.[2] Greatly […]
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Red Flag Laws: An Important Tool for Public Safety or Infringement on Constitutional Rights?
Photo provided courtesy by Pixabay By Matthew Naum, Staff Writer Red flag laws, also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders (“ERPOs”), have gained momentum on both the state and national level as a potential way to prevent public mass shootings since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in […]
Mass Shootings in America: What is the Answer?
By Elizabeth Echard, Staff Writer Since 1966, 1,077 victims, ranging from the unborn to the elderly, have been killed in America in mass shootings.[1] While no universally accepted definition for “mass shooting” exists, these statistics look to the 150 shootings in America where four or more people were killed by […]