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School Shootings

Click HERE for our latest articles about gun violence.

● Shelton L. Williams: What I learned from the Texas school mass shooting 41 years ago

● Carla Blank: The worst massacre in US history?

● Heather Munro Prescott: Mental Health is Everyone’s Business: Historical Reflections on the Virginia Tech Shootings

● Warren Goldstein: Why It's OK to Rat On Other Students

● Historians, philosophers have explored the nature of courage

● William Marina: Did Cho Seung-Hui Have the"Herostratos Syndrome"?

● Bob Herbert: A Volatile Young Man, Humiliation and a Gun

● Jonathan Zimmerman: In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, America needs a day of mourning and reflection

● Jerry Bower: Ismail Ax ... The Shooter Was Another 'Son of Sacrifice'

● Major shootings on American college campuses

● Engineering prof who was Holocaust survivor saved students' lives

● How another university coped -- and still is

● Plan Would Seal Columbine Depositions for 25 Years

● George Beres: Review of Joseph Lieberman's The Shooting Game

● James Castagnera: The Amish School Tragedy

● Plan Would Seal Columbine Depositions for 25 Years