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An opinion piece about the possible motives behind school shootings.

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

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

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

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.

The whole story as we know it so far.

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...

Here are accounts from students on campus at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL, describing the events of February 14 when an armed gunman opened fire on them in their classroom; an experienced college instructor (6 colleges) analyzes the ongoing problem

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

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

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

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

This is a NIU student relaying the events that unfolded during the shootings at Northern Illinois University.

Steven Kazmierczak does not seem to fit the profile of a rampage killer. Still, he killed 5 people at Northern Illinois University before shooting himself. Parallels are being drawn between Kazmierczak and the Virginia Tech shooter, Cho Seung-Hui.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

While the tragic shooting and deaths at University of Illinois were on Valentine's Day, I have some trouble equating the senseless slaughter of students in a university class to mobster Al Capone gangland shooting.

A staff member recounted her feelings and the scenes as she lived them from Neptune East, the building directly across from Cole Hall and a first refuge for students escaping the scene of the shooting.

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.

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

A short comparison of the two gunmen.

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.

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

The Northern Illinois School of Theatre and Dance has trained a group of storytellers to entertain the DeKalb, Illinois, community this holiday season. The show takes place in the Stevens Building Corner Theatre.

Students from NIU will paint the street logo for the Thanksgiving Day parade in Chicago.

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

I grew up an hour south of Dekalb,IL where NIU is located. It's exactly the type of community where the people say "It could never happen here."

Gunman shoots at least 15 at NIU and then kills himself.

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.

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

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

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

Three teachers receive rewards and discuss one room school houses.

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

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

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.

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

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.

A look into the world of shootings at schools.

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....

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"

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

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.

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.

Shots ring out in Va. Tech campus; 32 dead

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

When God was taken out of our school system, chaos reigned supreme. Now its time to bring Him back to the front of things.

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?

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

United States has become a nation divided. We are divided over the rights of the individual over the rights of the group.

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?".

My opinion of what happens when "bullying" goes too far... DISCLAIMER: I'm not blaming any of the victims; this is my opinion.

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.

With the recent shootings at Virginia Tech, racism escalates in Virginia's public schools.

Does anti-depressant therapy inhibit or develop violent behavior?

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

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

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 ...

Northern Illinois Campus police confirmed that Steven Kazmierczak entered Northern Illinois University's Cole Hall auditorium armed with a shotgun and opened fire.

Columbine brought the topic of school violence into our living rooms as we watched horrific scenes play on our televisions. Do parents today think about the possibilities in their school systems? Whose responsibility is it, to prepare our children.

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.

Lauren Burk, 18, of Marietta, Georgia, died of a gunshot wound to the head Tuesday night, March 4, just off campus at Auburn University. The next morning, Wednesday, another young Georgia woman, Eve Carson, 22, of Athens died of a gunshot wound to the head.

In our society a college education is necessary in order to climb the career ladder.

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

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

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.

From December 12, 1991 through February 10, 1992, the Kent State University Campus in Kent, Ohio, was enveloped in fear. One person shot dead, one shot in the chest, and then, on February 10...

A former student wounded in the shooting claims a voice can be heard on the tape giving the order to fire. The students were protesting America's entry into Cambodia

"We're OK," I hear my boyfriend say on the other end of the phone. Little did I know, a gunman had opened fire in the VonMaur department store at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska this afternoon, Wednesday, December 5, 2007.

An article I wish there was no need for

Cho Seung-Hui, the shooter at Virginia Tech, final words have been found. Apparently Cho Seung-Hui mailed them to NBC between the shootings. Learn more inside.

What can we do to help prevent violence and shootings in our highschools and colleges?

News media report random shootings almost on a weekly basis. Often they suppress the information that would be helpful: which popular serotonin-boosting medication the shooter had been taking.

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.

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

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...

Have you ever noticed that the same stories are told in the aftermath about the most recent school shooters? They were all rejected by their community. Was this was a factor in their ultimate decision and what could have been done to prevent it?

Why didn't God save the school children?

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