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Dr. Gillian Naro was working a night shift when her hospital faced an active shooter. In an interview with The Trace, she discusses the experience, and how she hopes to prevent more violence.
Active Shooting
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.
The company points to 18 incidents as proof that its controversial methods save lives. The record is a lot more complicated.
Living through the era of school shootings, one drill at a time.
The ALICE Training Institute was an early proponent of having teachers and students confront gunmen. There’s little evidence its approach works.
Gun rampages do more than kill and injure. They also damage Americans’ communal life. Yale sociologist Vida Bajc analyzes the aftershocks.
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…
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…
Nine back-to-school stories from the age of the bulletproof backpack.
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…
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…
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…
A “disgruntled” former employee killed five people with a handgun, authorities said. He then shot himself.
A laid-back Saturday night at Bilbo's in Kalamazoo gets taken over by a terrible American routine.
The latest updates on the situation unfolding in California.
