Virginia Tech Massacre

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Name: Virginia Tech Massacre

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 11 2013 - 1 reports

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Lead Investigator In Virginia Tech Massacre Heads Training In OK

EDMOND, Oklahoma -A former FBI agent turned Deputy Chief of Police at Virginia Tech was at UCO Tuesday morning to train Oklahoma law enforcement agencies about active shooter situations.The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Museum and Hall of Fame brought in Kevin ... [Published News 9 - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Virginia Tech Massacre, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Tulsa, FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 1 reports

SIUE Terrorist Threat Case Appeal Denied

EDWARDSVILLE, IL (KTVI)– The Illinois Supreme Court has refused to consider an appeal from the Madison County State’s Attorney’s Office.That office was appealing an appeals court decision to throw out the conviction of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville ... [Published Fox 2 Now - May 30 2013]

Entities: Terrorists, Threat, Madison (Wisconsin, United States), Edwardsville (Illinois, United States), Illinois Supreme Court

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 1 reports

Why Waze is attractive to Apple

Waze is one of a handful of companies that owns actual map data, making it an attractive target for Apple, Facebook or Google. Waze is one of a handful of companies that owns actual map data, making it an attractive target for Apple, Facebook or Google. ... [Published CNN Money - May 29 2013]

Entities: Waze Inc, Kristina Anderson, Virginia Tech Massacre

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 1 reports

Acting to avoid another Sandy Hook

BY NEEL KELLER | SENTINEL STAFF Dare County Sheriff Doug Doughtie. On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed 20 children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT before killing himself. It was the second ... [Published Outer Banks Sentinel - May 29 2013]

Entities: Sandy Hook (United States), Jack Shea, Community Oriented Policing Services, Kitty Hawk Inc

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 2 reports

Newtown's 911 Calls: Will Connecticut Block the Public From Ever Hearing Them?

Last week, that Connecticut's top prosecutor and aides to Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy had crafted legislation that could block public access to investigation material from the massacre at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School, including recordings ... [Published Mother Jones - May 29 2013]

Entities: Columbine (United States), Dannel Malloy, Corroboration

First reported May 25 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 1 reports

Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Student shot in US state of Florida

A student has been shot at a school in Miami in the US State of Florida as gun violence continues to plague the country.According to police officials, the student was shot in the leg at Miami-Dade School on Friday and was sent to Miami Children’s Hospital ... [Published Press tv - May 25 2013]

Entities: John Schuster, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Pablo Sánchez, Virginia Tech Massacre, Seung-Hui Cho

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

School lockdowns need to be rethought, U.S. safety experts advise

When an intruder invades a school in Canada, the usual protocol is to move into lockdown mode, with teachers telling students to hide inside classrooms.But a pair of U.S. experts is suggesting that it might be time to rethink that approach, arguing that ... [Published CTV News - May 23 2013]

Entities: United States, Virginia Tech Massacre, Causality, Canada

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Women shout 'shame on you' in Senate chamber after gun measure fails

Washington (CNN) - Two women whose lives were touched by recent mass shootings shouted in the Senate chamber "shame on you" just after lawmakers defeated a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks on gun sales. After the outburst on Wednesday, ... [Published CNN Political Ticker - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Virginia Tech Massacre, Gabrielle Giffords, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Why do violent US attacks happen so often in April?

Boston Marathon bombings leave Americans asking why April and Patriots' Day seem to trigger atrocitiesBriefingLAST UPDATED AT 11:53 ON Tue 16 Apr 2013 THE Boston Marathon bombings have left some Americans asking why mid-April is so often associated ... [Published The First Post: Latest - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Patriots Day, Virginia Tech Massacre, Waco (Texas, United States), Timothy McVeigh

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Timothy Johnson: What Right-Wing Media Should Understand About The Virginia Tech Massacre

Although right-wing media have largely claimed that gun violence prevention proposals would have no effect on the incidence of mass shootings, the six-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre highlights how deficient gun laws facilitate the ... [Published Media Matters for America - County Fair - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Virginia Tech Massacre, Timothy Johnson, Right Wing, Gun Violence, Seung-Hui Cho

First reported Apr 13 2013 - Updated Apr 13 2013 - 1 reports

GUEST OPINION: U.S. Senator Pat Toomey Showed Courage

Winston Churchill once said “courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” With regard to the national debate on gun rights in America, our Senator Pat Toomey did both. He listened to Pennsylvanians ... [Published BucksLocalNews.com - Apr 13 2013]

Entities: Pat Toomey, Criminal, Zina Haughton

First reported Jan 17 2013 - Updated Jan 17 2013 - 2 reports

Coulter Column: Guns Don't Kill People, the Mentally Ill Do

Seung-Hui Cho, who committed the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, had been diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder as a child and placed under treatment. But Virginia Tech was prohibited from being told about Cho's mental health problems because of ... [Published NewsBusters.org blogs - Jan 17 2013]

Entities: Anxiety Disorder, Seung-Hui Cho, Virginia Tech Massacre

Quotes

"Now that the names are in NICS, more people are going to be denied, so I anticipate we will have more as people go out and attempt to purchase" a firearm, she said

Oregon program with $576,000 budget restores gun rights to 3 people [Published Oregonian - Jun 12 2013]

"It can happen pretty much anywhere," said Foust. "The famous last words are, 'it'll never happen here.' We all want to believe that and we all hope and pray that's true but all it takes is one time."

Lead Investigator In Virginia Tech Massacre Heads Training In OK [Published News 9 - Jun 11 2013]

"I'm very pleased - ecstatic - that the situation has been laid to rest and I can finally go forward without this hanging over my head" Oduwole told The Associated Press by telephone from the Chicago area. "Happy is an understatement."

Ill. SupCo takes pass, ends student threat case [Published Miami Herald - May 30 2013]

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Ill. SupCo takes pass, ends student threat case [Published York Daily Record - May 30 2013]
Why Waze is attractive to Apple [Published CNN Money - May 29 2013]
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Oregon teen school bomb suspect had "detailed c... [Published Voice of Russia - May 27 2013]
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Shooting victim creates app to save lives [Published CNNMoney.com - Video - Apr 19 2013]
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On The Anniversary Of Virginia Tech, The NRA Ma... [Published Think Progress - Apr 16 2013]
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Blogs

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Women shout 'shame on you' in Senate chamber af... [Published CNN Political Ticker - Apr 17 2013] Washington (CNN) - Two women whose lives were touched by recent mass shootings shouted in the Senate chamber "shame on you" just after lawmakers defeated a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks on gun sales. After the outburst on Wednesday, ...
On The Anniversary Of Virginia Tech, The NRA Ma... [Published Think Progress - Apr 16 2013] Six years ago, Virginia Tech University went down in history as the site of the deadliest school shooting to ever occur in the US. Seung-Hui Choi, a 23-year-old English major, gunned down 56 people and killed 32. Choi had been declared “an imminent ...
Timothy Johnson: What Right-Wing Media Should U... [Published Media Matters for America - County Fair - Apr 16 2013] Although right-wing media have largely claimed that gun violence prevention proposals would have no effect on the incidence of mass shootings, the six-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre highlights how deficient gun laws facilitate the ...
Mental Illness, Gun Rights, And Medical Privacy [Published Outside The Beltway \| OTB - Apr 13 2013] Wrapped up in the ongoing debate over gun control in the wake of the shootings in Newtown, CT and Aurora, CO,and going all the way back to the Gabby Giffords shooting in 2011 and the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 has been the issue of mental health ...
ABC Pushes Gun Control With One-Sided, Recycled... [Published NewsBusters.org blogs - Apr 11 2013] World News reporter David Muir on Wednesday aggressively pushed gun control with a recycled, one-sided report on the ease of buying weapons. Muir also failed to identify Omar Samaha , featured prominently in the segment, as the grassroots coordinator ...

Audio/Video

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Shooting victim creates app to save lives [Published CNNMoney.com - Video - Apr 19 2013]
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Press Releases

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