by Russell “Texas” Bentley, republished from the Greanville Post, and introduced here by Eric Zuesse Introduction Mass-murders routinely occur in many places around the United States, and dominate the headlines each time. The killers aren’t funded by the U.S. Government. But when mass-murders happen in the U.S. vassal-nation of Ukraine ever since 2014, and especially […]
Allegra Harpootlian links gun violence at home to U.S. wars abroad. By Allegra Harpootlian TomDispatch.com In the wake of the Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 students and staff members,…Read more →
(CONVERSATION Op-ed) — How many school shootings happen in the U.S. in a single school year? The answer is surprisingly hard to figure out. In April, the U.S. Department of Education released a report on the 2015-2016 school year, stating that “nearly 240 schools (0.2 percent of all schools) reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.” However, the nonprofit […]
NPR attempted to make contact with every school to confirm the statistics and discovered that more than two-thirds of the incidents never happened. The DOE shrugged off the disclosure by saying that it merely relied on data provided to it by the schools, but the schools did not provide such data. [...]
Facebook has the right to censor whoever they want, but this kind of clumsy, partisan censorship practice is just begging for government intervention. (FEE) — Earlier this week, NPR reported on the high number of school shootings alleged by the U.S. Department of Education. The 240 school shootings detailed in the department’s report on the 2015-2016 school year […]
In recent months a string of school shootings in the United States has rekindled the debate over gun violence, its causes and what can be done to stop it. But amid endless talk of school shootings and AR-15s, a large piece of the puzzle has been left conspicuously absent from the debate.
Contrary to the notion that mass murderers are at the heart of America’s gun violence problem, data from recent years reveals that the majority of gun deaths are self-inflicted.
Every day, 42 Americans die in gun homicides, the grim backdrop against which to talk about school shootings. In the three months between the 10 shot dead in Santa Fe, Texas, on Friday, and the 17 in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, around 4,000 Americans lost their lives in firearms homicides.
In the initial horror following a school shooting, we witness the “thoughts and prayers,” finger-wagging from politicians not wanting to “politicize” the shooting, and promises to “do something.” Then, just as predictably, nothing happens.
The massive turnout for the March for Our Lives demonstration in Washington on March 24 has given rise to hope that a new youth movement can spur a social transformation in the United States, write Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers.…Read more →
School police officer, Scott Peterson, drove toward the shooting, but did not enter the building during the shooting. Peterson retired rather than face dismissal but is being investigated by internal affairs. Before we jump to the conclusion that the school police officer failed to do his duty, we must realize that government enterprises like schools and police do not have a duty to protect citizens against the actions of a private third party. [...]
Wolfgang Halbig, a retired Florida State school safety expert who researched the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 and concluded it was a "contrived event", now turns his investigative skills to the shooting at Parkland high school. Halbig wrote the school safety plan for the Douglas high school in 2006, and says that the Parkland shooting follows the same script as the Sandy Hook event: There were no trauma helicopters called, paramedics were not allowed into the school, and it is unknown who declared the victims dead.
