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The Oxford Mass Shooting Shows the Limits of ‘Hardening’ Schools

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The Oxford Mass Shooting Shows the Limits of ‘Hardening’ Schools

The desire to keep kids safe has spawned a multibillion-dollar industry promising to turn schools into fortresses. Oxford High School is a prime example of that effort.

Tom Kutsch and Jennifer Mascia
ALICE Is Overstating the Effectiveness of Its Active Shooter Trainings

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ALICE Is Overstating the Effectiveness of Its Active Shooter Trainings

The company points to 18 incidents as proof that its controversial methods save lives. The record is a lot more complicated.

Champe Barton
Lockdown

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Living through the era of school shootings, one drill at a time.

Elizabeth Van Brocklin
The Company Behind America’s Scariest School Shooter Drills

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The Company Behind America’s Scariest School Shooter Drills

The ALICE Training Institute was an early proponent of having teachers and students confront gunmen. There’s little evidence its approach works.

Sylvia Varnham O’Regan
Mass Shootings Are Destroying Our Sense of Public Space

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Mass Shootings Are Destroying Our Sense of Public Space

Gun rampages do more than kill and injure. They also damage Americans’ communal life. Yale sociologist Vida Bajc analyzes the aftershocks.

Alex Yablon
Nine People Fatally Shot in Dayton, Ohio, Outside a Downtown Bar

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Nine People Fatally Shot in Dayton, Ohio, Outside a Downtown Bar

A summer night out ended in horror in Dayton, Ohio, where a gunman killed nine people and injured 27 others around 1 a.m. Sunday, August 4, in a popular downtown entertainment district. It was the second mass killing with a…

James Burnett
At Least 20 People Killed at an El Paso Walmart

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At Least 20 People Killed at an El Paso Walmart

At least 20 people are dead after a mass shooting at a shopping center in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, August 3. Police said another 26 were injured, and that a suspect is in custody. Governor Greg Abbott…

Jennifer Mascia
‘The Day I Have to Carry a Gun to Teach, I’m Done.’

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‘The Day I Have to Carry a Gun to Teach, I’m Done.’

Nine back-to-school stories from the age of the bulletproof backpack.

Beatrix Lockwood
Texas High School Shooting: At Least 10 Killed in Santa Fe

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Texas High School Shooting: At Least 10 Killed in Santa Fe

On the second-to-last Friday before summer break, a gunman entered his Texas high school armed with a shotgun and a revolver, unleashing a torrent of bullets that would leave 10 people dead and as many wounded. The victims included students…

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New FBI Data Shows Active Shooters Caused Nearly 750 Casualties in 2017

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New FBI Data Shows Active Shooters Caused Nearly 750 Casualties in 2017

More Americans were killed or wounded by active shooters in 2017 than in any year since the Federal Bureau of Investigation began keeping track. All told, nearly 750 people were shot in 30 incidents, according to a newly…

Daniel Nass and Sean Campbell
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For Six Minutes, Rancho Tehama Gunman Tried to Shoot His Way Into Elementary School

For six minutes on Tuesday morning at Rancho Tehama Elementary School in Tehama County, California, everything went as teachers had rehearsed. A man had crashed a stolen car through the school’s front gate. He was stalking the grounds, armed with…

Alex Yablon
Gunman Strikes Orlando Workplace in the Most Common Type of ‘Active Shooting’

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Gunman Strikes Orlando Workplace in the Most Common Type of ‘Active Shooting’

A “disgruntled” former employee killed five people with a handgun, authorities said. He then shot himself.

Jennifer Mascia
When the Pizzeria Went on Lockdown

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When the Pizzeria Went on Lockdown

A laid-back Saturday night at Bilbo's in Kalamazoo gets taken over by a terrible American routine.

Elizabeth Van Brocklin
San Bernardino Shooting: What We Know So Far

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San Bernardino Shooting: What We Know So Far

The latest updates on the situation unfolding in California.

Jennifer Mascia
Planned Parenthood Shooting: 8 Things to Know Now

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Planned Parenthood Shooting: 8 Things to Know Now

As we learn more about the shooting in Colorado Springs, here are the developments The Trace is watching.

Jennifer Mascia

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The Oxford Mass Shooting Shows the Limits of ‘Hardening’ Schools

ALICE Is Overstating the Effectiveness of Its Active Shooter Trainings

Lockdown

The Company Behind America’s Scariest School Shooter Drills

Mass Shootings Are Destroying Our Sense of Public Space

Nine People Fatally Shot in Dayton, Ohio, Outside a Downtown Bar

At Least 20 People Killed at an El Paso Walmart

‘The Day I Have to Carry a Gun to Teach, I’m Done.’

Texas High School Shooting: At Least 10 Killed in Santa Fe

New FBI Data Shows Active Shooters Caused Nearly 750 Casualties in 2017

For Six Minutes, Rancho Tehama Gunman Tried to Shoot His Way Into Elementary School

Gunman Strikes Orlando Workplace in the Most Common Type of ‘Active Shooting’

When the Pizzeria Went on Lockdown

San Bernardino Shooting: What We Know So Far

Planned Parenthood Shooting: 8 Things to Know Now