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In Guns We Trust
Since the mass shooting at Columbine High School 25 years ago, guns have grown ubiquitous, showing up in grocery stores, airports and political protests, and encroaching on our lives in new and unprecedented ways.
The first episode of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust” explores the legacy of the infamous mass shooting in Littleton, Colorado.
Ask The Trace
A reader asks if increasing armed school security could reduce deaths from active shootings or deter the attacks in the first place.
Politics
The Newtown parents who waded into the gun control debate in 2012 have been a key political force ever since.
Law
But after a lawsuit brought by family members of Sandy Hook victims was tossed out, a judge leaves the door open for appeal.
Culture
Keith Maitland’s film weaves together archival footage and animation to show how the University of Texas sniper attack of August 1, 1966 unfolded, in real time.
In Memoriam
How a Walmart’s worth of Batman costumes helped the young survivors of a South Carolina school shooting (and their parents) learn to be brave again.
Data
That's more than one per school day.
A murder-suicide rocks an Arizona high school, and illustrates what research has found about children’s access to deadly weapons.
Mass Shooting
A tenured professor at Florida Atlantic University, Tracy has maintained for years that the Sandy Hook massacre never took place, and harassed the families of victims. Now he's paying for his views.
