Tag: School Shooting

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  US has more civilian guns than people: 120,5 for every 100 Americans

  

  United States is the only country in the world where civilian guns outnumber people, according to the Swiss base Small Arms Survey (SAS), and is also the country where at least one mass shooting takes place every year, as has tragically happened in Texas, where 19 school children and two teachers were killed by some mentally ill teenager.

• Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  FBI tips Paraguay of possible school massacre copycat

  

  The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has warned Paraguayan Police of a local possible encore of the recent massacre at a Texas primary school in which 21 people were killed.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Over 20 killed in yet another US school shooting massacre

  

  Over 20 people have been killed after an 18-year-old assailant opened fire at a Texas elementary school in one of the worst massacres in US history. The perpetrator was eventually gunned down by law enforcement officers.

• Saturday, January 11th 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  Mexico shocked at school shooting and killing by a student

  

  An 11-year-old boy shot and killed his teacher on Friday at a school in northern Mexico and wounded six other people before killing himself, authorities said. As shocked Mexicans searched for explanations for the school shooting - a rare event for the country - officials said they were investigating a possible link to the Columbine High School massacre in the US in 1999.

• Friday, March 15th 2019 - 08:57 UTC

  Connecticut court rules families can sue Remington gun maker for killings of school children

  

  A Connecticut court has ruled that families of schoolchildren killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting can sue American gun-maker Remington. In a 5-4 vote, the US state's Supreme Court said the lawsuit could proceed on the basis of state consumer protection laws.

• Saturday, May 19th 2018 - 09:33 UTC

  Ten people killed in school shooting by a student near Houston, Texas

  

  Ten people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting on Friday morning at a high school south of Houston, authorities said. The shooting at Santa Fe High School was the nation's deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control.

• Thursday, March 1st 2018 - 09:46 UTC

  Two major US retailers announce restrictions on gun sales; Trump tells lawmakers they are petrified of NRA

  

  Two major US retailers have announced new restrictions on gun sales following the shooting at a Florida school where 17 people died. Dick's Sporting Goods, which has more than 600 shops, said it would no longer sell assault-style rifles, and backed “common sense gun reform”. Walmart later said it was raising the minimum age for anyone buying guns or ammunition to 21 years.

• Monday, February 19th 2018 - 09:21 UTC

  Mass shooting survivors planning to march “for our lives” in Washington on 24 March

  

  Students who survived a mass shooting at their Florida school on Sunday (Feb 18) announced plans to march on Washington in a bid to “shame” politicians into reforming laws that make firearms readily available. The “March for our Lives” will take place on Mar 24, with sister rallies planned across the country, a group of students revealed.

• Thursday, February 15th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Carnage at Florida school: expelled student opens fire and kills at least 17

  

  Police said a former student opened fire at a Florida high school on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending scores of students fleeing into the streets in the nation's deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. The shooter, who was equipped with a gas mask and smoke grenades, set off a fire alarm to draw students out of their classrooms shortly before the school day ended, officials said.