school shootings

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• SOURCE: Current
  6/9/2022
  

  Matthew McConaughey Goes Home

  by John Fea

  As a movie fan, the author has never been moved by the Uvalde, Texas native. But as a Christian, he found the actor's public solidarity with the victims and their families compelling and honest. 

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• SOURCE: TeenVogue
  5/26/2022
  

  The Forgotten School Gun Massacre in Stockton, CA

  Patrick Purdy killed 5 children, all from Southeast Asian refugee families, and injured 30 others in a schoolyard gun attack in 1989, an incident that should be a reminder of the horrific combination of racism and guns in America. Gun violence scholar Pat Blanchfield explains how we've collectively forgotten.

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• 5/26/2022
  

  Historians on the Latest Mass Shooting and the Politics of Guns

  by HNN Staff

  What are historians saying about the mass shooting in [insert latest location here] and the politics of guns? 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  1/12/2022
  

  Online Christian Martyrs

  by Peter Manseau

  "Imagine if all the energy, resources, and marketing that have been used to inject ideas of martyrdom into issues of public health and safety had instead gone toward making real change."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/9/2021
  

  Secret NRA Tapes in Wake of Columbine Show Decision to Attack Critics for "Politicizing" Mass Shootings

  The NRA faced a crossroads after the Columbine shootings in 1999. They chose a scorched-earth posture that has guided their response to every mass shooting incident since, documented in recordings of high-level strategy meetings.

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• 5/5/19
  

  Run, Hide, Fight If You Must…Now What?

  by David Lee McMullen

  A history professor at UNC Charlotte reflects on the campus shooting last Tuesday. 

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• SOURCE: Colorado Public Radio
  4/15/19
  

  After Columbine, President Clinton Set A New Standard As 'Consoler In Chief' — And He’s Still Thinking About The Survivors

  “There are certain things, if you're president, you need to say,” Clinton said. “There are certain other things you need to not say.”

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• SOURCE: The Panorama
  6-4-18
  

  The Persistence of a Mythic Second Amendment in Contemporary Constitutional Culture

  by Saul Cornell

  The most prominent myth obscuring historical understanding of the Second Amendment relates to America’s frontier past.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-24-18
  

  Law professor has a theory about the 2nd Amendment historians might want to consider

  by Carl T. Bogus

  The theory: The amendment was included in part to protect slavery

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5-21-18
  

  Would the Founders want our kids to die in school shootings like Santa Fe? I doubt it.

  by Jill Lawrence

  Does anyone think they would expect us to live by a 230-year-old document?

• SOURCE: Der Spiegel
  6-20-13
  

  Remembering Bremen, the first-ever school shooting

  On Friday, June 20, 1913, 100 years ago, death arrived at the Marienschule school in Bremen, Germany. What happened that day wasn't just any old murder -- it was the first documented mass school shooting in history.It was shortly before 11 a.m., as teacher Maria Pohl lined her students up in two lines to leave the school building for recess. As the girls began to move, a man stormed up the stairs and opened fire. His name was Heinz Jacob Friedrich Ernst Schmidt, a 29-year-old unemployed teacher who had only lived in the city since December of the previous year.Panic broke out as Schmidt continued to fire his gun. Two girls were shot dead. A third fell and broke her neck as she tried to climb over a stair railing to escape. A few other girls retreated back into the classroom, where they were pursued by the killer. The five- and six-year old girls begged for their lives: "Uncle, please don't shoot us!"...