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Jan 26, 2022 · This post considers what we know about K-12 school shootings and what we might do going forward to alleviate their harms. Who is perpetrating school shootings?
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- Most people who commit a mass shooting are in crisis leading up to it and are likely to leak their plans to others, presenting opportunities for intervention.
- Everyone can help prevent school mass shootings.
- Threat assessment is a promising prevention strategy to assess and respond to mass shooting threats, as well as other threats of violence by students.
- Individuals who commit a school shooting are most likely to obtain a weapon by theft from a family member, indicating a need for more secure firearm storage practices.
Oct 16, 2015 · In a new essay, Malcolm Gladwell offers an explanation of how school shootings “catch on.” School shootings, as we know them, took off in the late ’90s.
Oct 12, 2015 · School shootings mostly involve young white men. And, not surprisingly, given the ready availability of firearms in the United States, the phenomenon is overwhelmingly American.
Dec 7, 2021 · To help thwart potential school violence, students and staff need to beware of certain warning signs – and feel comfortable reporting them. But “the general public, they really don’t know what to...
Sep 28, 2022 · While each mass shooting in the US is its own tragedy, experts say the killers share many things in common. Could identifying these traits help stop the next attack?
May 25, 2022 · The choice of “gunmen” to describe the perpetrators is accurate – all of the mass school shootings in our database were carried out by men or boys. And the average age of those involved in ...
