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While school resource officer Scot Peterson has been under intense scrutiny for not stopping the mass shooting in Parkland, FL, another gun expert says that credible messengers could be used in schools to prevent mass shootings.
Police say a boy opened fire with two handguns in a science classroom, wounding a teacher and another student. Gov. Eric Holcomb has begun to address the question that will almost certainly dominate next year’s legislative session: How do we prevent something like this from happening again?
The school-shooting copycat syndrome has steadily escalated in recent years. Young men, many of them depressed, alienated or mentally disturbed, are drawn to the Columbine subculture because they see it as a way to get the attention of a society that they believe bullies, ignores or misunderstands them.
Half of mass school shooters since 1990 had a history of being bullied, says the Wall Street Journal, but experts differ about whether bullying is a cause of school shootings.
Of the 10 deadliest school shootings in the U.S., all but one took place in a town with fewer than 75,000 residents and the vast majority were in cities with fewer than 50,000 people. The pressures of living in small downs make it harder for disgruntled teens to adjust.
No one in the Texas city where 10 died in a school shooting last Friday agree to meet with a gun control advocate. Gov. Greg Abbott holds a roundtable Tuesday on school security.
After the Santa Fe school shooting, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said there are too many entrances and exits at schools. Security experts say it would be too expensive and impractical to secure every door, and that focusing on earlier identification of potential shooters is more important.
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a shaggy-haired, 17-year-old junior, was charged with killing 10 people and injuring many others at his high school in Santa Fe, a working class suburb 35 miles south of Houston. He posted a photo on Facebook of a “born to kill” T-shirt and wrote in a journal about shooting people and committing suicide.
At least 10 people were killed by a gunman at Santa Fe High School south of Houston on Friday morning. The shooter, a 17-year-old who apparently used his father’s guns, was arrested.
A police school resource officer is being lauded as a hero for intervening when a former student at Dixon, Il., High School opened fire Wednesday morning near the school gym where students were gathered for a graduation rehearsal. Officer Mark Dallas shot and injured the gunman.