school shootings

“I’m a big advocate of the Second Amendment. I have been from the beginning. I protected it. And these things are terrible. But the gun doesn’t do the shooting. The people do. It’s, you know, a phrase that’s used probably too often. “I will tell you that it’s a shame. I’m just hearing about it now, just heard about it. …

CNN reports: Two people are dead after a shooting at Florida State University, according to FSU Chief of Police Jason Trumbower. He said five others were reported to a local hospital with gunshot wounds. The shooter was also taken to the hospital, Trumbower said. Around 11:50 a.m. ET today, a gunman opened fire on the main campus of Florida State …

NBC News reports: An 18-year-old Indiana student has been accused of plotting a mass shooting at school on Valentine’s Day, a plan he allegedly wrote was inspired by the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people. Jamie Shockley has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, intimidation: threat to commit terrorism, and conspiracy intimidation, according to Morgan …

Reuters reports: A decades-old U.S. government ban on federally licensed firearms dealers selling handguns to adults under the age of 21 is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court held on Thursday, citing recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings expanding gun rights. The ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals marked the first time a federal appeals court has …

Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports: For as long as he can remember, Gunner Joseph Fisher, 18, has thought about mass murder. “When I was a f**king child, before I even got into school, I saw crowds of people and (fantasized) about someone mowing them down.” Driven by a hatred of Jews, African Americans and Muslims, Fisher believed he was “bound to …

ProPublica reports: Moments before 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow opened fire inside her Madison, Wisconsin, school, killing two people and herself last month, a social media account believed to be hers posted a photograph on X showing someone sitting in a bathroom stall and flashing a hand gesture that has become a symbol for white supremacy. As news about the shooting broke, …

Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports: In one of his first sentences, Solomon Henderson wrote he “was ashamed to be Black.” He was anti-Semitic in his writings and posted a flyer from the Goyim Defense League, which is a neo-Nazi white supremacy group that visited Nashville this summer. Henderson said he was inspired by Candace Owens, a conservative Black pundit who previously …

Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports: Two students are dead and another student was injured after a shooting inside Antioch High School on Wednesday. According to police, two students were shot by another in the cafeteria. The shooter then turned the gun on himself. One female student and the shooter are dead. “We know at 11:09 a.m. a person who has been …

Via press release from the Brady Campaign: Brady, the nation’s oldest gun violence prevention organization, responded today to President Trump’s apparent shuttering of the landmark White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The office – which opened in September 2023 under the leadership of President Biden – was responsible for managing a first-ever coordinated federal response to mass shootings and …

The Daily Beast reports: Gun lover Rep. Lauren Boebert is finally trying to make good on her dream of abolishing the government agency that regulates firearms. The Colorado Republican introduced a bill that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF). Boebert has been talking about getting rid of the ATF since at least 2023, when she …

The Associated Press reports: A court in Serbia on Monday convicted the parents of a teenage boy who last year shot dead nine pupils and a school guard and wounded six more people in a school in central Belgrade. The Higher Court in Belgrade sentenced Vladimir Kecmanovic, father of the boy, to 14 years and six months in prison for …

The Washington Post reports: The 15-year-old girl who killed two people and wounded six others at her small Christian school here Monday had a turbulent home life, according to court records, which show that her parents divorced and remarried multiple times and that she had been enrolled in therapy. Rupnow’s father is a Christian who often shared pictures of his …

CBS News reports:  A 20-year-old Carlsbad man is accused of plotting a mass shooting at a government building in conjunction with Madison, Wisconsin, school shooter Samantha Rupnow’s attack at the Abundant Life Christian School. According to a gun violence restraining order obtained by CBS 8, FBI agents served Alexander Paffendorf after discovering Paffendorf was in contact with Rupnow and coordinating …

CNN reports: Madison police are investigating whether the 15-year-old shooter’s parents owned or possessed the gun used in Monday’s school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said Tuesday. “We also want to look at if the parents may have been negligent. And that’s a question that we’ll have to answer with our district attorney’s office,” …

CNN reports: At least four people are dead, and another five are injured, after a shooting at a Madison, Wisconsin, school on Monday, according to police. The update came in during a news conference with police. Officers located a juvenile suspect who is deceased, Madison, Wisconsin, Police Chief Shon Barnes said at a briefing Monday. “This is a ever-evolving situation,” …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge on Friday overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that strictly interpret the Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms. U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn issued the lengthy finding in a decree that he said applied universally, not just to the plaintiffs who brought the …

CBS News reports: Staff at a Kenosha, Wisconsin elementary school prevented a possible shooting by stopping a teen with a rifle on Thursday. Officials said a 13-year-old middle school student showed up at Roosevelt Elementary School with a backpack and a black duffel bag. Staff approached the teen as he tried to get in a side entrance. He ran away, …

ABC News reports: Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, were the two teachers killed in the incident, officials said at a Wednesday night news briefing. Students Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and Christian Angulo, also 14, were also killed, officials confirmed. Another nine victims — eight students and one teacher — were taken to hospitals with injuries following the shooting, the …

The New York Times reports: Federal investigators said on Wednesday that the suspect in the shooting at a Georgia high school had been interviewed more than a year ago by local law enforcement officials in connection to threats made online of a school shooting. The authorities were led to the suspect, Colt Gray, who was 13 at the time, after …

CNN reports: The suspected gunman is believed to be a 14-year-old boy, a law enforcement source told CNN. The source said it is not yet known whether the teen attended that school. The suspect is alive and in custody, the GBI said in a post on X. The high school had received an earlier phone threat, multiple law enforcement officials …