Both Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sen. Ted Cruz doubled down on false narratives about gun reform while passing the buck once again. 

Opinion

The March for Our Lives is only a march for OUR lives if people meet at the intersection of mass school shootings, community violence, poverty, the war on drugs, police brutality and white supremacy.

Of the at least 12 school shootings so far this year, there have been three at historically Black colleges.

The former sheriff’s deputy who fled the shooting scene at a Florida high school offered an excuse for his cowardly behavior.

Robert Runcie, the Broward County Public Schools superintendent, appeared Sunday on NBC’s Meet The Press to talk about the Parkland, Florida school shooting.

NewsOne Original

Despite the rush across the nation to increase police in schools in the aftermath of the deadly shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary, Denver officials signed an agreement to limit the role of law enforcement at the city’s schools this week. SEE ALSO: Obama’s Chicago Speech On Gun Violence Tells Blacks A Skewed Story Officials […]

In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, where 27 people were brutally gunned down, a Florida mother is taking security for her child in to her own hands. Laura Lauria is paying an off-duty deputy to guard her daughter’s elementary school to the tune of $12,000, reports The Daytona Beach News-Journal. […]

Nation

Another U.S. school became a crime scene Thursday morning when a 16-year-old student opened fire during his first period class and critically wounded a classmate with a 12-gauge shotgun, reports CNN.com. The gunman aimed specifically at the critically injured student, and one more classmate, but missed in that instance, according to authorities. SEE ALSO: Mother […]

CHARDON, Ohio — The Ohio teenager accused of killing three students in a shooting rampage in a high school cafeteria chose his victims at random and is “someone who’s not well,” a prosecutor said Tuesday as the slightly built young man appeared in juvenile court. T.J. Lane, 17, admitted taking a .22-caliber pistol and a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sometimes pushing back tears, the parents of victims in the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting testified Wednesday that they believe their children would have stayed in a safe place far away from where they were later shot if they’d had more information from the university about a safety threat on campus. SEE ALSO: All […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A school principal was killed Wednesday in an apparent homicide at a private school and a 17-year-old student was taken into custody, police said. Officers said the body Suzette York, 48, was discovered by a teacher shortly after 11 a.m. at Memphis Junior Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist Church-affiliated school in east Memphis. […]