NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with James Densley, a professor at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota, about the lessons he learned from studying a database of mass shooters. Listen or read here. Author: Leila Fadel Source: NPR … [Read more...]
2 professors, tracking patterns, try to predict who might carry out a mass shooting
Mass shootings cannot, need not be the nation’s default
"Densley and Peterson point out that, in the aggregate, perpetrators are angry with the world and in search of a reason and a way to manifest it. "Hate comes late along this pathway," the professors write. Perpetrators' understanding of their cause is typically "shallow and contradictory" and "simply convenient."" In this article, the authors … [Read more...]
National Institute of Justice Funded Research Amasses Details of a Half Century of United States Mass Shootings
"The Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice (NIJ) today published an article discussing the NIJ-supported and publicly available Violence Project Database that identifies common traits of persons who engaged in mass shootings between 1966 and 2019..." In this article, the United States Justice Department discusses the process … [Read more...]
Communication of Intent to Do Harm Preceding Mass Public Shootings in the United States, 1966 to 2019
"Importance: Understanding the motivation of a mass shooter’s intent to do harm can help practitioners and policy makers develop more effective intervention strategies. Objective: To examine the prevalence of communication of intent to do harm, known as leakage, in a sample of 170 mass public shooters from 1966 to 2019; the characteristics of … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Second Amendment Case Puts Gun Control Laws At Risk
"On October 20, 23-year-old Nikolas Cruz pled guilty to murdering 17 people in the 2018 Parkland school shooting. Four years after that tragedy — with school shootings doubling nationally as students return from remote learning — the Supreme Court is considering a case that could have a tremendous impact on gun control legislation. The lawsuit … [Read more...]