The massacre at a Connecticut elementary school changed the national conversation on school safety and gun control.
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Maine Voices: Ten years after Sandy Hook, it seems to me that little has changed
We lose an entire kindergarten classroom a week to gun violence. When are we going to put an end to it?
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Colorado LGBTQ club shooting suspect charged with 305 counts, including hate crimes
The suspect had been held on hate crime charges following the attack but prosecutors had said they weren’t sure whether those counts would stick because they needed to assess if there was adequate evidence to show it was a bias motivated crime.
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones files for bankruptcy in face of $1.5 billion in damages
Jones faces court orders to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax.
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Buffalo gunman pleads guilty in racist supermarket massacre
Payton Gendron massacred 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket and has pleaded guilty to murder and hate-motivated terrorism charges.
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University of Virginia shooting suspect targeted victims, witness told police
The violence Sunday night left 3 football players dead and 1 player and another student wounded.
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Families unleash grief and anger on Parkland school shooter
Families address Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz in emotional and often angry terms about the devastation he brought to their lives.
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Gunman kills 2, wounds 6 others at St. Louis high school
Seven security guards were in the school at the time, each at an entry point of the locked building, and 1 of them notified police.
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Michigan school shooter pleads guilty, including to rare terrorism count
Michigan was an early adopter in making terrorism a state-level felony and has among the most robust laws of the 34 states and District of Columbia that prosecute terrorism at the state level.
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North Carolina shooting claims mom, veteran, matriarch, officer and teen
The mass shooting in North Carolina’s capital city occurred during a moment of late afternoon rituals along a neighborhood’s quiet streets and on a popular walking trail.