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Commentary: We can't be speechless about school shootings

School shootings seem to always be met by silence. During lockdowns or active shooter situations, children muffle their voices, sit still and play dead. And afterward, we are told to send our thoughts and prayers, an essentially private, soundless act even when they’re plastered across social media.

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What could make a hoax call reporting a school shooting worse? Social media

NPR has documented an alarming pattern of hoax school shooting calls across the country. Now another pattern has emerged: bad actors using these moments to spread misinformation online.

WEKU

Violence dropped at California middle and high schools over 18 years, UCLA study finds

LOS ANGELES — A UCLA study found steady and steep decreases in California school violence over 18 years, including fights and reports of guns and other weapons on campus, results that indicate students generally felt safe at school despite nationwide mass school shootings.

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A Columbine survivor’s tragic battle to reveal the ‘ripple effect’ of gun violence: trauma, addiction, suicide

With 377 school shootings since Columbine, Americans are still reckoning with the real toll of these attacks

The Guardian - US

Special grand jury in Va. shooting to probe school system employees

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A special grand jury appointed in the Richneck Elementary School shooting case will investigate whether any “actions or omissions” by school system employees led to a 6-year-old boy opening fire on his first grade teacher in a classroom three months ago.

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Nashville council to vote on restoring ousted state lawmaker

Nashville officials are poised to vote to reinstate one of the two Black Democratic lawmakers expelled by Republican colleagues over their gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting

The Independent UK

Tennessee’s House expels 2 Democrats over gun protest, VP Harris travels to meet them

In an extraordinary act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. A third Democrat was narrowly spared by a one-vote margin.

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Biden condemns ‘shocking’ Tennessee lawmaker expulsions over gun furor

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden condemned Tennessee Republicans’ expulsion of two lawmakers who protested a deadly Nashville school shooting last week, calling the episode unprecedented and criticizing GOP leaders for refusing to enact tighter gun-control laws.

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Biden condemns ‘shocking’ Tennessee expulsions over gun furor

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden condemned Tennessee Republicans’ expulsion of two lawmakers who protested a deadly Nashville school shooting last week, calling the episode unprecedented and calling out GOP leaders for refusing to enact tighter gun-control laws.

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Kamala Harris to meet with expelled Tennessee lawmakers

Vice President Kamala Harris is making a last-minute trip to Tennessee on Friday, hours after the Republican-controlled House expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature in retaliation for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville

The Independent UK

Tennessee House expels 2 Democrats for gun-control protest

The GOP supermajority in the House banished Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, who are both Black, for joining a protest for gun control after the Nashville school shooting.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tennessee's state legislature expels 2 of 3 Democrats over gun control protest after Nashville shooting

In an act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans expel two Democrats from the state legislature for their role in a protest that called for more gun control in the aftermath of a school shooting in Nashville.

ABC News

Tennessee GOP expels two of three Democrats who joined gun protests in wake of Nashville school shooting

‘It is no coincidence that the two youngest Black lawmakers in the state of Tennessee, and one of two women, are on trial today. That is not accidental. This is what happened when you lose democracy’

The Independent UK

Tennessee Republicans vote on expelling Democrats for gun protest

Vote takes place days after deadly Nashville school shooting, with advocates calling possible ousting ‘undemocratic’.

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Do 'More Guns Lead To More Deaths'?

No, and that good news needs to be front and center in all discussions of gun control, especially after school shootings.

The Guardian - US

Tennessee Republicans bid to expel Democrats who cheered gun control protest

Republican legislators introduce resolution to remove trio after they supported protest in wake of Nashville school shooting

The Independent UK

Nashville police: School shooter planned attack for months

As students across Nashville were walking out of class to protest gun violence following a school shooting last week, police released new information into the investigation

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: No, all transgender Americans aren't implicated by the actions of one killer

It was entirely predictable, but still despicable, that right-wing demagogues like Sen. Josh Hawley are trying to spin Monday’s Nashville school shooting into an indictment of transgender Americans generally because the assailant happened to identify as trans. That was the obvious thrust of a Fox News discussion between the Missouri…

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Funeral held for ‘spitfire’ teacher killed in Nashville school shooting

Cindy ‘CiCi’ Peak, 61, was among six victims who were shot to death at the Covenant School

The Independent UK

States aim to boost school safety after Tennessee shooting

In the wake of a deadly elementary school shooting in Tennessee earlier this week, state lawmakers across the country are moving forward with school safety measures

The Independent UK

Pastors: Palm Sunday a balm after Nashville school shooting

It’s Palm Sunday

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‘It feels like it happens every week’: Nashville grapples with gun debate after school shooting massacre

Less than a year after 19 children and two teachers were killed by a teenage gunman in Uvalde, Texas, a 28-year-old shooter killed three children and three adults more than 1,000 miles away in Tennessee. Nashville has been added to the list of tragic school shooting sites, as the famed…

Daily Mirror

Nashville school shooting: first funeral held for nine-year-old "shining light" victim

"Shining light" Evelyn Dieckhaus was one of three nine-year-old children who were murdered alongside their principal and a school custodian when warped former Covenant School student mowed them down with an assault rifle in Nashville on Monday

WEKU

The Nashville school shooting highlights the partisan divide over gun legislation

President Biden this week called for the reinstatement of an assault weapons ban, a law that had roots in a 1989 shooting in a California schoolyard. Here's a look at what got that ban on the books.

The Independent UK

Stunned community remembers Evelyn Dieckhaus days after Nashville school shooting

A celebration of the nine-year-old’s life hears how even the tragedy of her death has brought ‘so much good and love’ to a community shaken by America’s latest school shooting. Sheila Flynn reports from Nashville

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