school-shootings
After huge demand, state senator wants Pa. to budget $125 million for school safety grants
Gov. Tom Wolf has proposed funding two programs at $45 million and $10 million, respectively, in the state’s 2019-20 budget.
‘We need to stop it before it happens:’ Bipartisan House coalition rolls out new school safety measures
The lawmakers say the bills could help stop future acts of violence before they happen.
Armed school officers and security will get additional training under Senate bill
The devil is in the details, as a state Senate committee hearing demonstrated Tuesday.
Parkland, One Year Later: This is what these South Florida high school shooting survivors want you to know
To relive what I experienced every single day and be saddled with the guilt of survival, leads to an excruciating existence. But I know I’m not alone. All of us at MSD are inexorably linked to a frighteningly growing list of mass shooting survivors.
Taxing video games won’t be enough to keep Pa. schools safe, bipartisan legislators say
A suburban Philly lawmaker’s suggestion to furnish school safety dollars by taxing violent video games received a lot of press — with occasional blowback — this week. Bills from Rep. Chris Quinn, R-Delaware, would slap a 10 percent tax on all games rated M or higher to pay for school safety funding. According to the video […]
School shooters usually show these signs of distress long before they open fire | Opinion
By Jillian Peterson James Densley Two years before he lined his schoolmates up against a classroom wall and executed them one by one, the student, who would become the gunman, tried to show his English teacher something important. He had quietly slid up his sleeves to reveal the cut marks running down his arms. The […]