‘Nonprofit’ to Put More Guns in Colorado Schools

Colorado is trying to confront the reality that no community is immune from the threat of a school shooting. But again, they’re going about it the wrong way. A recent report from Colorado new…

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Missing School Bathroom Gun Still Not Recovered After Two Arrests

The saga of the missing toilet gun continues, and somehow this story keeps getting worse every day. What started as a school resource officer leaving a gun behind in a bathroom at Forest View Educa…

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Gun Lost in Bathroom by Illinois SRO Has Escaped the School

Yesterday, I wrote about the incident at Forest View Educational Center in Arlington Heights, Illinois, where a school resource officer somehow left a gun behind in a school bathroom, forcing class…

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Ill. SRO Loses Gun in School Bathroom, Plus Bonus Parent Story

I spent about twenty years living in North Carolina, and I’ll be honest with you, I couldn’t point to Stokes County on a map if you spotted me a few guesses and a compass. That’s not a knock on the…

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3D-Printed Arsenal Seized from Homes of Maryland Teens

Two separate incidents at St. Charles High School in Maryland on consecutive days led to the recovery of multiple firearms from two 15-year-old students and their homes. In the first case, a school…

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More School Staff Leaving Their Guns Lying Around

In Tallahassee, Florida, an elementary school safety monitor brought a gun onto campus and somehow managed to leave it sitting in a restroom. Not locked away or secured, but just there until a scho…

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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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