By Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor Four Oakland, Calif., police officers shot down. An Alabama man strolling a small town with a rifle, looking for victims. Seven elderly people shot dead at a North Carolina nursing home. And on Sunday, six people, including four kids, died in an apparent murder-suicide in an upscale neighborhood …
Monthly Archive: March 2009
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31
2009
Nursing homes safe despite mass shooting, representatives say
By Dan Bowens, wral.com Watch Video Robert Kenneth Stewart, 45, is accused of shooting and killing seven patients and a nurse at Pinelake Health and Rehab Center before Carthage police Cpl. Justin Garner, 25, shot him. “I cannot imagine the terror that the families felt after the event and the horror the patients felt during …
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Mar
30
2009
Guns on Campus: Bills would allow guns at college
By Jim Vertuno, Associated Press John Woods sometimes sits in a classroom at the University of Texas and wonders what would happen if somebody walked in and started shooting. In April 2007, he was a student at Virginia Tech when his girlfriend and several other people he knew there were gunned down in the deadliest …
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Mar
30
2009
Texas Legislature holding hearing on college campus weapons bill
from DallasNews.com Could a campus shooting be stopped by a student carrying a gun? A public hearing on a bill that would allow licensed concealed gun carriers to take their weapons to college is scheduled for today. – Proponents say that if students and instructors were armed it could cause would-be killers to rethink their …
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Mar
29
2009
Columbine reconstructed
By M.L. Johnson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution At least three new books seeking to understand the Columbine school shooting in Colorado are coming out in time for next month’s 10th anniversary. Two are written by journalists who covered the rampage and then spent a decade looking into the killers’ backgrounds, the government investigation and survivors’ recovery. …
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