school shootings
Posted Jan 31, 2021, 4:16 pm
Laura Olson
/Arizona Mirror
GOP leaders chose Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to serve on the Education and Labor Committee, amid a growing outcry over the Georgia Republican’s past comments challenging the veracity of deadly school shootings. Taylor Greene has also been show on video harassing a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.... Read more»
Posted Sep 20, 2019, 10:02 am
Wissam Melhem
/Cronkite News
A new report claims that Arizona loses as much as $1.9 billion every year to costs directly associated with gun violence, from lost wages to expenses on everything from health care to police and criminal justice.
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Posted Dec 12, 2013, 5:32 pm
Nicholas Kusnetz
/Center for Public Integrity
Guns or funds? Districts debate what it will take to make kids safer, and schools and state governments have feverishly searched for ways to protect their students. State legislators introduced hundreds of pieces of legislation on school safety. Many called for arming more security guards or, like a law passed in Texas, for arming teachers.... Read more»
Posted Apr 4, 2013, 9:35 am
Susan Ferriss
/Center for Public Integrity
Just as a National Rifle Association task force unveiled its “National School Shield” report this week, a detailed critique from three criminologists termed the gun lobby’s push for enhanced school security “superficially simple.”... Read more»
Posted Jan 15, 2012, 7:00 am
Susan Ferriss
/Center for Public Integrity
The fatal police shooting earlier this month of a Texas middle school student clutching a BB gun spotlights how localities and states have struggled to identify and control both look-alike toys and guns that fire something other than bullets. ... Read more»