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An opinion piece about the possible motives behind school shootings.

In the wake of the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, some people would point to guns as part of the problem. However, the gun lobby is taking this opportunity to suggest that even more people take up arms. Would Virginia Tech really be safer with more guns?

As the nation mourns the deaths of 33 individuals at Virgina Tech University on Tuesday, political debate is heating up over the the United States' lack of gun laws. While some big players are keeping silent, others are speaking out.

This week's Virginia Tech shootings brings back haunting memories of a local school shooting.

Most people don't want to think about the Virginia Tech and Columbine tragedies. We need to remember the school disaster young people of Virginia Tech, Columbine, and Bath, and Our Lady of The Angels and far too many others.

An young Australian man created an online game titled "V-Tech Rampage" that simulated the Virginia Tech shootings on April 16th. Despite public outrage, he refuses to take it down from his website.

A lone gunman has murdered at least 22 people at Virginia Tech this morning in two separate shootings.

In the latest still developing coverage of this incident, at least 32 people were fatally shot, including the gunman and at least 29 others have been wounded. The shootings occurred in two separate locations at the Virginia Tech University.

On the day that saw the deadliest school shooting in American history, Rochester Community School District shuttered four schools.

People are still not quite over Columbine, and that happened eight years ago, the war is still going on and we know it. In this latest shooting, more people were hurt and killed than at any other school incident. Virginia Tech is ...

This article compares the shooting at Virginia Tech to the fictional shooting in Jodi Picoult's book, Nineteen Minutes. What made Seung-Hui snap? What made him take his frustration out on other students?

Tragedies such as the school shooting at Virginia Tech affect all of us, but ultimately we must mourn and move on.

The deadliest campus shooting in US History happened on Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia. 21 people were killed by the crazed gunman whom was also killed.

Today, the deadliest school shooting took place. A student caught some of this heinous act on video. Learn more about this inside.

Ted Nugent and Tom Plate get to the heart of the gun control debate taking shape across the United States in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre.

This article shares the most recent information available on the shooting that took place on campus of Virginia Tech University today, Monday - - April 16, 2007.

More information regarding the town of Blacksburg, the campus of Virginia Tech, and the locations in which the shootings of April 16 took place.

This research is about school violence ways of prevention why it happens what scientists blame for these occurrences and what the public thinks. The paper will also go through ways that schools protect the people inside them.

Campus police, along with the FBI, State Police and the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department are working together to solve the mystery behind why this atrocity has happened.

Will the latest school massacre at Virginia Tech cause a movement for more gun control? Or will people think hard about the implications of law abiding people being denied access to guns?

Read this updated account of the two shootings at Virginia Tech today, including eye-witness accounts.

Blacksburg, VA.- Two shootings happened at the opposite ends of Virginia Tech University campus, leaving one gunman dead and at least twenty casualties.

Virginia Tech has been hit with a tragedy of historic proportion.

The following investigates the link between the Virginia School shooting and how it may have helped get Sanjaya booted from American Idol

The fatal school shooting that took place today has been added to the growing list of fatal school shootings that have taken place over the past 40 years. Here is a look at the past.

The whole story as we know it so far.

This is how myth-takes and myth-information get spread.

Coming as another blow to the students who were victimized in this horrible event, the shooter has now been identified as one of their own. He is said to be an Asian male and a student of Virginia Tech University.

Finland has one of the highest rates in gun possession, but one of the lowest firearm murder rates. As Finland examines gun control, the United States government may want to look more closely at what causes violent shootings.

Combining those who consider themselves social outcasts, the gothic counterculture has made an impact on society since the early 1980s. It was misrepresented by the media as a result of the Columbine High School shootings.

Police arrested a D. C. Everest School District employee Tuesday over concerns of potential violence

Why a suicidal manic becomes a mass-murdering maniac.

With the latest school shooting at an Amish schoolhouse in PA, the nation is searching for answers to this senseless violence. What is going on in the country? Why are our children needlessly being killed?

This article explores school violence involving guns and what parents can do to prevent fatal situations from happening.

What is it about the month of April that welcomes so much tragedy? Help me figure it out.

When visiting my parents this weekend we heard the horrific news of the tragedy at Virginia Tech. As the news coverage continued throughout the day the debate began at our house...should the school have done more to prevent the shootings?

Ideas to help you ease you're child's fears as news of the Virginia Shootings intensifies.

Forgiveness is a discipline most are familiar with but few practice. The Amish community has demonstrated God's forgiveness in the wake of the October 2nd shootings at one of their schoolhouses.

It is not possible to keep students secure in a school setting, simply put. We can learn from the tragedy at Virginia Tech, but could we have prevented it? I seriously doubt it.

The MSN message board regarding the Virginia Tech shootings is chock-full of people insisting that Christ and prayer be brought back into the public school system. Somehow, this would prevent children from growing up to go on shooting sprees.

The National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere, or SAVE, was created by students from around the country, and meant to educate students on the growing problem of school violence.

As we all know, history always repeats itself but if that's true then why don't we ever learn from our past? Tragedies like the Columbine shooting will always repeat itself because people will never learn to treat others how you would like to be treated.

For years, psychiatry has known that their antidepressants, antipsychotics and ADHD drugs were more likely to increase, than decreaseacts of violence and suicide. We are now seeing the results.

The rash of recent school shootings reveals where our priorities as a nation rest.

An editorial regarding the way the media has handled the Virginia Tech shooting.

A Massachusetts Professor is fired after leading discussion of Virgina Tech massacre.

Schools across the country are receiving threat while campuses search for ways to improve security.

The University Has Recently Recieved Bomb Threats and This is the Second Shooting of the Year.

Shots ring out in Va. Tech campus; 32 dead

The Virginia Tech tragedy occured as local residents were preparing for the eighth anniversary of the Columbine shootings. Thoughts before the Tech shooting by a local writer, and responses from a Denver newspaper on what the area can offer Virginia.

A commentary on the Virginia Tech massacre, one year later.

Sleepy Blacksburg, Virginia and its pride, Virginia Tech, will long be the unfortunate symbols for the dire need for gun control in the U.S.

This is a first hand account of the horrendous situation that occurred on the campus of Virginia Tech Campus Monday April 16, 2007.

Today Virginia Tech University has experienced the "deadliest campus shooting in United States history"

Being a Hokie is different since the Virginia Tech shootings on April 16, 2007. Here is one alumna's story...

School shooting on Virginia Tech's Campus leaves 30 people dead.

The number of possible deaths keep climbing. First 21 deaths, then 30, and estimates as high as 32.

Two gunshot victims were found in a dormitory, a male and a female. The Virginia Tech Police along with Blacksburg police after questioning some eyewitnesses, secured the building and began to establish a safety perimeter

The attitude toward the massacre here in south Jersey is a mixture of sorrow, awe, and disgust with how security measures were (or, were not) implemented.

Students and administrators at Chicago's Northwestern University expressed sadness about the shootings, but recognize some things can't be prevented.

School shootings seem to beget more school shootings. Just a coincidence, or could the media be perpetuating such incidents by elevating the killers to celebrity status?

School shootings are occurring all over the United States. There have been several in the past ten days, one fatal.

Is banding guns the answer? Is arming everyone the answer?

Many people do not realize that school shootings not only affect the students who attend that school, but they also affect students across America.

Many believe that the Virginia Tech massacre is the most deadly school incident in US history; however, that isn't the case.

This paper argues that the Second amendment of the American constitution, should not be dissolved in the face of recent school shootings in an attempt to deter such incidents in the future, since there is no proven correlation between the two items.

Review of the book Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings.

The solution to deterring school shootings may not be in turning school into something like a prison with a lot of extra security, but giving students and sons and daughters another type of security, an emotional security.

When we hear of another school shooting we all gasp and some shed a tears. It is sad news that none of us want to hear, but we listen to each and every word. We then thank God that its not our child's school.

Workplace and school shootings are becoming very common. Are we learning anything from them?

A look into the world of shootings at schools.

How do you prepare your child to go to school in the midst of news of school violence?

Miserably, school violence has become routine across the nation.

There have been U.S. 27 school shootings in the last 10 years. This is enough to scare someone into finding out the truth behind all of the tragedies.

Universities work on safety measures in preparation for such an emergency.

It indeed is unfortunate that our nation is soaked in this youthful bloodshed, and parents and children alike struggle to figure out the eternal question, "Why?".

The United States is now the most violent country in the industrialized world when it comes to school shootings and mass shootings. 2007 has been particularly bad for shootings in the USA and the year hasn't ended yet. Read more for why....

There are too many shootings going on around schools, are we not safe anymore?

There was an assault that was worse then the one at Virginia Tech...

This particular system created in the early 80's as a predictor of possible violent behavior has been used in schools the last decade with unknown results in conquering the problem. More public knowledge of their findings would help us get on a partial road to answers...

On February 12th a shooter, Steven Kazmierczak, used a gun to shoot and kill people. Much was made of his use of psychiatric drugs. Now a documentary attempts to make a stronger case for the dangers of these drugs.

With the tragedy of Virginia Tech so close, it's no wonder my experience at CSU, Fullerton came back to raise the hairs on my arms all over again.

Debates over Virginia Tech's handling of the information and the age-old debate over the right to bear arms are just the beginning in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings.

At this point, facts are vague at best. But 21 are confirmed dead and 21 more injured.

A 15 year old boy was charged as an adult in a school shooting on Chicago's Southeast Side Tuesday, April 10. The boy wounded himself and another child, but no fatalities were reported.

School shootings always happened in the suburbs but now they are moving into inner city schools.

The Virginia Tech shooter mailed a package to NBC in between the two shooting times. The package contained videos, writings, and photos.

The first major incident that I can recall was Columbine High School. It seemed to have started a new fad for cowardly children who have been oppressed and picked on and not given any respect to make a statement to the world. The REAL kicker is that it is societies fault.

This was the first shooting at NIU we have had these kind of incidents happen so many times in the past, is it really a surprise? Nothing is ever really done to prevent these kind of targeties, we should take a closer look because...

News about the deadly shooting at a Finland high school, and the dangers of being passive.

As the kids are starting up another school year, find out what parents should know as well as what teachers can do to insure safety in school.

Rambling about the Virginia Tech shootings.

Monday, April 16, 2007, is a day that no one will forget, especially for Virginia Tech students like me. Starting from around 7:15 a.m., police received a call about a shooting in West Ambler Johnston Hall, or more commonly called West AJ, a co-ed student dormitory.

Leaders from Britain, Germany, Mexico, China, Afghanistan and France all stopped short of criticizing President Bush and the U.S. gun laws. They then offered their sympathies to all of the families of Monday's vict