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Swatting Schools: Serial hoaxes causing real dangers

Swatting Schools: Serial hoaxes causing real dangers

On Tuesday February 7, 2023, a call came in for a school shooting in progress at Nouvel High School in Saginaw, Michigan. Officers raced to…
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The Slaughter Schoolhouse: Why carrying rifles all day is a bad idea

The Slaughter Schoolhouse: Why carrying rifles all day is a bad idea

“We realized that you can’t take a handgun to a rifle fight, because most of the bad guys are coming into the schools with assault rifles,”…
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The Other School Shootings: Gun Violence at America’s Poorest Schools

The Other School Shootings: Gun Violence at America’s Poorest Schools

Today, two students were killed and a staff member was seriously wounded at the Starts Right Here charter high school in Des Moines, IA…
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Five Years After Marshall County High School Shooting

Five Years After Marshall County High School Shooting

Five years ago today, a 15-year-old student killed 2 and wounded 18 at Marshall County High in Benton, KY. His planned attack occurred…
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By every measure, 2022 was the worst year ever for school shootings

By every measure, 2022 was the worst year ever for school shootings

In 2022, there were 302 school shootings, more than any year prior. In fact, for the 2022 school year — fall in particular — there was a…
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Artificial Intelligence: Help or Hindrance?

Artificial Intelligence: Help or Hindrance?

You may have noticed that Artificial Intelligence is having a moment partly because it has become more accessible to a wider audience.
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Angi English
“One Second From Columbine”: Connecting the Dots Before School Shootings

“One Second From Columbine”: Connecting the Dots Before School Shootings

More than two decades later, each 9/11 anniversary continues to be a stark reminder of everything that went wrong leading up to that…
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What is ‘school security’?

What is ‘school security’?

In the wake of the Uvalde massacre, President Biden signed the first bipartisan gun legislation in generations. Included in the bill is…
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Kids in Crosshairs: Sniper Attacks on Schools

Kids in Crosshairs: Sniper Attacks on Schools

On a Friday afternoon, a group of teens crossed a glass sky-bridge connecting buildings at the Edmund Burke School, an elite prep school in…
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2021: Breaking School Shooting Records

2021: Breaking School Shooting Records

As 2021 comes to an end, it shatters the record for gun violence at K-12 schools in the United States. Shots were fired on school campuses…
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Stop the Arbitrary Benchmark for a Mass Shooting

Stop the Arbitrary Benchmark for a Mass Shooting

News headlines across the country labeled the massacre in Boulder, CO as the nth ‘mass shooting’ to happen this year. While these…
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The Psychology and Social Psychology of Conspiratorial Thinking

The Psychology and Social Psychology of Conspiratorial Thinking

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed daily conspiracy theories on just about everything imaginable. Everything…
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Angi English
Biggest ISIS Attack in 3 Years: Day One Challenge to President Biden

Biggest ISIS Attack in 3 Years: Day One Challenge to President Biden

On the first day of Joe Biden’s presidency, simultaneous suicide bombings killed at least 32 people and injured 110 others in Iraq. ISIS…
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First Mile of the Vaccination Marathon

First Mile of the Vaccination Marathon

General Perna, the military official running Operation Warp Speed, said yesterday that the “last mile” of vaccinating the American public…
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2020 Update: Imagining Future Homeland Security Threats

2020 Update: Imagining Future Homeland Security Threats

While the events of 2020 have shocked the general public, homeland security experts ‘imagined’ these threats including a global pandemic…
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10 Ways to Decide Who Gets the COVID Vaccine

10 Ways to Decide Who Gets the COVID Vaccine

The United States is about three weeks away from distributing hundreds of thousands of doses of the new COVID vaccines. The logistics of…
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K-12 School Shooting Database 2.0

K-12 School Shooting Database 2.0

Two years after launching the K-12 School Shooting Database in September 2018, the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval…
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