School Shootings

Betsy DeVos told a congressional panel that the federal school safety commission won't be evaluating the role of guns in school-related violence.

The principal said she hoped the students would keep the shields with them in high school.

Trump flew into Houston, Texas, for the private meeting.

“I think that as a kid and certainly as parent, there is nothing that could be more terrifying than for a kid to go to school and not feel safe,” Sanders said.

The congresswoman is presently running for governor in Tennessee.

Newsweek looked at 24 school shootings that have taken place in 2018 to determine how many might have involved an AR-15 or similar gun.

Dimitrios Pagourtzis was arrested May 18 and charged with capital murder of multiple persons, according to the Galveston County Sheriff's Office.

It was the 21st high school shooting in the U.S. this year.

"School should not be a place where we have to worry about our kids getting killed. The more I see things like Parkland, I do get frustrated and feel sad that I failed."

Jones claimed interviews with grieving parents were filmed on blue-screen.

“We are a society of rules,” a school board member said when asked about punishments for students who participated in the school walkout to protest gun violence.

“We typically see a dramatic change in perception after school tragedies like shootings after Columbine or Sandy Hook.”

The protests commemorated the 17 students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14.

New Orleans police said they arrested 20-year-old Nicholas Heard on terrorizing charges.

"We have a responsibility to protect our schools from gun violence, accidental or otherwise."

Retail giant Walmart announced it would be raising the age for firearms buyers to 21 and will ban items resembling assault-style rifles

The president echoed his tweets from earlier in the day about arming select teachers to protect students.

Poll after poll shows near-universal support for some form of gun control, yet some politicians remain reluctant to cross the NRA. What are they so scared of?

The Educator's School Safety Network says it has recorded a sharp increase in the number of threats per day since the Florida shooting.

After the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, angry students won't let the issue of gun control disappear as it has after previous mass shootings.

“I think Congress is totally dysfunctional. I’ve never seen anything like this,” Kasich told CNN Sunday.

The girl's school is just half an hour away from the Parkland high school where a gunman shot and killed 17 people on Wednesday.

The use of the AR-15 in Parkland continues a worrying trend among recent shooters.

"Prayers won't fix this. But control will prevent it from happening again," the student wrote to the president.

Unimpressed with his response, the brave letter-writer wrote to the president a second time.

The suspect is down.

About 70 percent of schools say they've drilled students on what to do in an active shooter situation. What about the rest?

In the wake of a new law, some school districts have specifically allowed teachers to carry firearms.

Since the deadly events at Columbine High School in 1999, school shootings have become a disturbingly regular occurrence.

Sunday is the 10-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre that left 27 students, five staffers and the gunman dead.