school shooting
How to Cope With Surviving a School Shooting
“Try to find a vocabulary for your feelings.”
By Claire Lampen
Gun Control
Indiana Lawmaker Responds to Student Pleas for Firearm Safety by Telling Them He’s Armed and Flashing His Gun at Them
One student present said she felt “almost petrified with fear.”
By Bess Levin
Susana Went to Florida for the American Dream, but Found a Nightmare
From the Parkland shooting to laws targeting undocumented immigrants like her.
By Yacob Reyes
UNC Chapel Hill On Lockdown Barely 2 Weeks After Campus Shooting
“I shouldn't have to associate my lecture halls with hiding," wrote a student sheltering in place.
By Lex McMenamin
These Are the Texts Students Sent During UNC’s Shooting Lockdown
The school’s newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, shared the messages in a powerful front page.
By Teen Vogue Staff
How College Journalists Cope With Reporting on Traumatic Events on Campus
“I could barely make it through class without breaking down crying.”
By Mary Retta
A Tennessee Congressman Says Politicians "Aren't Going to Do Anything"
His solution for school shootings? "Well, we homeschool [our kid]."
By Lex McMenamin
Republican Politicians Are Pouncing on the Nashville Shooting to Spew Anti-Trans Rhetoric
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, and others are capitalizing on the shooting to spread disinformation and hatred.
By James Factora
Scary Gun Lockdown Drills Don’t Work. Here’s What Can.
There are other ways to try to prevent school shootings.
By Jordyne Lewis
Living In Fear: How Gun Violence Affects Our Mental Health
“It makes it really hard to imagine we will grow old.”
By Fortesa Latifi
The Disturbing Jokes About the ‘School Shooter’ Archetype
"School shootings have become so normalized in American youth culture that we joke about them."
By Saisha Agarwal
We Ignore People Who Were Injured in Mass Shootings
For every death in a civilian public mass shooting, six people are injured.
By Mia Tretta
The Kids Shouldn’t Have to Save Us
A March for Our Lives cofounder on the unrealistic pressures put on youth activists against gun violence.
By Delaney Tarr
Uvalde Parents Are Blockading the School District Office
"It’s like they don’t care,” the father of one victim said.
By Lex McMenamin
Bad Bunny Helped Buy a House For Uvalde School Shooting Survivor
10-year-old Mayah Zamora also got the Benito VIP treatment.
By Kara K. Nesvig
These Teachers Want to Put an End to School Shootings
“We’re teachers. We get stuff done.”
By Fortesa Latifi
My Cousin Died in a School Shooting While Visiting the U.S.
Sabika was an exchange student from Pakistan. I helped recover her body.
By Shaheera Jalil Albasit
“Stranger Things 4” Adds Content Warning After Texas Shooting
“We are deeply saddened by this unspeakable violence, and our hearts go out to every family mourning a loved one.”
By Kara K. Nesvig
The School Shooting That History Forgot
In 1989, five Southeast Asian children were killed in a California schoolyard.
By Taylor Weik
Beto O’Rourke Was Right to Confront Governor Abbott Over the Texas Shooting
“The time to stop the next shooting is now, and you are doing nothing.”
By Emma Specter