Yesterday, a freshman student at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, just north of Seattle opened fire in the school cafeteria, killing one girl and wounding four other students, two boys and two girls currently in critical condition, before taking his own life.
In the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last December, NRA head Wayne LaPierre famously quipped that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I guess no one told Antoinette Tuff, who just yesterday prevented a standoff with a gunman from turning into another…
On Friday, after an exhaustive search that included 40 possible new locations, a specially-appointed Newtown task force decided to demolish the old Sandy Hook Elementary school and erect a brand-new building in its place.
It makes sense that teachers, students and parents would all be on high alert following the school shooting tragedy of Newtown, CT, but what is the best way to be aware and prepared without being paranoid or further ostracizing at-risk or troubled kids? Well, here's how you shouldn't do it: A 16-year-old boy from Egg…
The National Rifle Association today announced that the answer to gun violence is more guns. Also, less Hollywood and...more guns. Yeah. That should do it. Because if history is any guide, more guns should definitely solve this gun problem.
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Apparently gun shops are doing brisk business in the wake of the shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. The Tampa Bay Times reports:
The midseason finale episode of Scandal that aired last Thursday — titled "Blown Away" — featured a graphic scene of an entire family, including kids, found gunned down in their home. According to the Huffington Post, the video clip was briefly pulled from ABC.com:
The Comfort Dogs are a team of Lutheran dog superstars who travel wherever people need a furry hug and slobbery kiss. They recently mobilized forces and beamed into Newtown to support its citizens. Naturally, it's pretty damn touching so get your Kleenex, foods to sad-eat, and some Prep H for those under eye circles.
When anyone who isn't a white and relatively well-off man strides into a public place and guns down innocent civilians, we attack his race and/or religious beliefs before we bury his victims in the ground. But when yet another privileged white guy storms into a school or movie theater and kills dozens of people, we…
In light of last Friday's tragic school shooting, some people are arguing that gun control is just a band-aid, and that access to mental health services in this country is the real problem. But the thing is, if I cut myself, I'm not going to say, "No, no band-aid for me, thanks! It won't heal the wound completely on…
Here's the cast teaching Big Bird what death means, and it'll break your heart about fifty times in one viewing. I'm not sure what's the best way to talk to kids about death, but this seems like a pretty good start.
Andrea Jaeger places flowers and a candle at a makeshift memorial outside a firehouse which was used as a staging area for families following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 15, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty six people were shot dead, including twenty children, after a gunman…
Much of the grieving nation is up in arms about the number of major media gaffes and indiscretions regarding yesterday's tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Interviewing students as young as second grade who had just been reunited with their parents, for instance. Not to mention the…
Twitter is deluged with celebrities (and civilians) chiming in on the gun control "debate" following today's horrific school shooting. The one I saw retweeted the most ubiquitously was this, from Dax Shepard: "I love guns. I have several, but I would gladly get rid of them if it would help prevent anything like this…
Twitter can be kind of hard to handle during a disaster like today's Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, but I like these tweets about all of the various deadly objects and entities we've gotten rid of, from Big Gulps to the KKK, because they're literally killing us.
President Obama teared up this afternoon when he talked about the victims of today's elementary school massacre in Connecticut: at least 27 people and 20 little kids were gunned down.
NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN all interviewed numerous young students — mostly second, third, and fourth graders — from Sandy Hook Elementary, mere moments after they were reunited with their parents. The children survived this morning's deadly school shooting, but is it healthy for these kids, who've witnessed the…
This is Fuck You Week, Jezebel's first annual week of desperate emotional cleansing and unhinged psychic purging. And yeah, considering what happened today, we feel weird about it — but still. It's relevant.
Images from the Facebook profile of one Ryan Lanza from Newtown, Connecticut, currently living in Hoboken, New Jersey (where a crime scene is being investigated in connection to the shooting) are making the rounds. All the pieces fit, right?
