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3 Evidence-Based Ways to Prevent School Shootings (That Don’t Involve More Gun Control)

March 5, 2025March 3, 2023 by TTAG Contributor

Beverly Kingston, University of Colorado Boulder and Sarah Goodrum, University of Colorado Boulder In the months leading up to his 2012 attack that killed 26 people in Newtown, Connecticut, a 20-year-old man exhibited a cascade of concerning behaviors. He experienced worsening anorexia, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. His relationships deteriorated, and he became fixated on mass … Read more

The Truth About Stopping School Shootings in America

March 5, 2025November 30, 2022 by TTAG Contributor

By Lee Williams My heart sinks every time I see breaking-news graphics announce another school shooting. It’s like a gut-punch…the lost lives, the suffering of the wounded, the horrors the first responders must encounter, and the families that will never again be whole. The blame and blood-dancing usually start before the bodies are even recovered. … Read more

Parkland Killer Nikolas Cruz May Have Talked His Way Into a Death Sentence

March 5, 2025October 9, 2022 by TTAG Contributor

Terry Spencer, AP It’s possible Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz talked himself into a death sentence. Prosecutors played video last week at Cruz’s penalty trial of jailhouse interviews he did this year with two of their mental health experts. In frank and sometimes graphic detail, he answered their questions about his massacre of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman … Read more

Florida Man Arrested After Leaving Dead Animals on Parkland Shooting Memorial

March 5, 2025September 20, 2022 by Dan Zimmerman

When we saw the photo of the man who had been arrested for dumping dead animals on the memorial for the students and teachers who were killed in the Parkland school shooting, we wondered why the Prime Minister of Canada would do such a thing. Then we read further and discovered that the suspect wasn’t, … Read more

The Parkland Shooting Was Proof Positive That Gun Control Doesn’t Work

March 5, 2025February 14, 2022 by Luis Valdes

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was a tragic event. Particularly so in that could have been prevented. Not prevented by enacting more gun control laws. It could have been prevented by the proper administration and application of law enforcement and school administration. But since the shooting four years ago, those who so … Read more

Parkland Shooter’s Lawyers Say Witnesses Calling Him ‘Killer’ Violate His Due Process Rights

March 6, 2025July 15, 2021 by Dan Zimmerman

The thing that murdered 17 innocent children and staff in the Parkland school massacre is upset that he is being called the killer. He should be treated the exact same way he brutally murdered my Alex. #NOMERCY https://t.co/W6LnewkxCE — Max Schachter (@maxschachter) July 13, 2021 Don’t call the Parkland shooter a killer, his lawyers say. … Read more

Florida Couple: Oops…We Should Have Believed Everyone Who Told Us Nikolas Cruz Was Violent and Dangerous

March 6, 2025July 29, 2020 by TTAG Contributor

From the AP: A Florida couple regrets ever taking in a disturbed teenager in the months before he was accused of the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In a letter that is part of a legal agreement to settle numerous civil lawsuits, James and Kimberly Snead said they should have believed what … Read more

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