Tag: Mass shootings
How the ‘good guy with a gun’ became a deadly American...
Susanna Lee, Georgetown University
At the end of May, it happened again. A mass shooter killed 12 people, this time at a municipal center in...
School shooters usually show these signs of distress long before they...
Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University
Two years before he lined his schoolmates up against a classroom wall and...
We provided psychological first aid after the Las Vegas shooting –...
Michelle Paul, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Heather Dahl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and John A. Nixon, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Editors’ note:...
Race of mass shooters influences how the media cover their crimes,...
Laura Frizzell, The Ohio State University; Sadé L. Lindsay, The Ohio State University, and Scott Duxbury, The Ohio State University
On Jan. 24, 2014, police...
MGM is suing the victims of the worst mass shooting in...
Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University
Last October, Stephen Paddock unleashed a barrage of automatic gunfire from a 32nd-floor hotel room overlooking a large crowd...
5 things to know about mass shootings in America
Frederic Lemieux, Georgetown University
At least 10 students were killed at a Santa Fe, Texas high school on May 18 after a classmate opened fire...
Why is the NRA boycott working so quickly?
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
The boycott of the National Rifle Association following its response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, came fast and...
Why this generation of teens is more likely to care about...
Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
When 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, it was just the latest...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
