2025: The Year of the School Shooting Industry: I Write Crime Ep. 12

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When the Sports Seasons Change but the Violence Doesn’t

High school football season may be winding down, but if anyone thought winter sports meant a break from guns showing up at school events, Sunday night in Fishers, Indiana, served as a painful remin…

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A Thanksgiving Week Gun Count

Thanksgiving week is usually slow news-wise. Schools are closed for part of it, police departments run lighter staffing, and even the worst actors seem to take a few days off. Or so we’d like to th…

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Gun possessions at Houston ISD schools have more than doubled compared to last year

Forty-two students have been caught with firearms on campus this school year, according to Superintendent Mike Miles. Last school year, the district had 18 gun possessions on record by April.

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Men who detained suspected shooter at Pasadena Memorial High School to be honored for heroism

Dennis Erwin Brandl Jr., 83, is accusing of shooting a Houston-area school employee at a band competition on Saturday. The victim is expected to recover, according to authorities.

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Houston ISD to roll out weapons detectors on high school campuses where guns have been found

The weapons detectors, Superintendent Mike Miles said, will be less intrusive and quicker for students to get through than typical metal detectors like the ones found in airports.

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Lamar Consolidated ISD investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in AI-powered security system

The Houston-area district is among many across the country using weapons detections systems that utilize artificial intelligence. The systems have not been proven to prevent school shootings, according to the director of the John Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools.

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A pair of Humble High School students were arrested and charged with felonies after allegedly bringing a gun to their campus Tuesday. A day before, another Humble ISD school was placed on lockdown.

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#Education #EducationNews #Guns #HarrisCounty #Local #News #FelonyCharges #GunsInSchools #HumbleHighSchool #HumbleISD

Humble High School students charged with felonies for allegedly bringing gun to campus

The arrest of two students on Tuesday followed an incident Monday in which another Humble ISD campus, Kingwood High School, was placed on lockdown because a gun was suspected to be on campus.

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Republican notions of how to address gun violence are so fucking stupid that I have to conclude they simply don't care about people. #NRA #GOP #GunsInSchools #ArmTheTeachers #ArmEveryone #GunControlNow

Georgia Wants To Bribe Teachers $10,000 To Carry Guns, Almost Definitely Get Themselves Killed https://www.wonkette.com/p/georgia-wants-to-bribe-teachers-10000

Georgia Wants To Bribe Teachers $10,000 To Carry Guns, Almost Definitely Get Themselves Killed

They want this so badly because the alternative is gun control.

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Gun finds it way into Texas preschooler’s backpack

It’s not as quite as disturbing as a school shooting, but it’s pretty damn close. This past Tuesday at a San Antonio preschool, a teacher found a handgun in the backpack of a three-year…

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