Even liberals are sick of violent disorder| UnHerd
In the operating rooms of Minneapolis’s busiest trauma center, anesthesiologist Andrew Engel regularly cares for gunshot victims. He’s used to the adrenaline of assessing patients in critical condition, stopping their bleeding, and rushing them into surgery. But last week, when Engel got paged with a message saying students from the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Read more... The post The Shock of School Shooting Victims in a Minneapolis ER appeared first on Christianity Today.| Christianity Today
(OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV joined his brother bishops and fellow Americans in the U.S. in expressing condolences following a deadly mass shooting that took place Aug. 27 at… The post Pope Leo joins US bishops in mourning victims of Catholic school shooting first appeared on OSV News.| OSV News
Inside the effort to spare the Parkland school shooter.| The Marshall Project
Some offers of free counseling turn off the people we mean to help.| Psychotherapy Notes
Twitter is a popular social medium for members of U.S. Congress, and the platform has become focal for framing policy discussions for constituents and the media. The current study examines the corpus of N = 5,768 Congressional tweets sent on the day of and week following the 2018 Parkland shooting, over 25 percent of which (n = 1,615) were related to the shooting. Democrats were far more likely to engage Parkland as a prominent topic in their Twitter feeds. Democrats framed Parkland discussio...| Journal of Mass Violence Research
As defined back in the 1980s, the term “mass shooting” has long been understood to mean the intentional killing of four or more victims with gunfire in a single incident. However, recent efforts to examine this rare and tragic crime have employed alternate definitional criteria. In order to facilitate cross-study comparisons and curb rampant public fear, it is imperative that scholars, politicians, and the media avoid using the same terminology to describe very different phenomena. In thi...| Journal of Mass Violence Research
The definitions and terms used to describe single-incident mass casualty events vary widely and remain contested. To allow for the inclusion of more incidents, larger and more representative samples, and more comprehensive analyses, we argue in favor of using the broad term “rampage” and propose a new model, the Rampage Violence Status Model (RVSM), which provides additional context on completion status and can subsume previous terminology. Additionally, by expanding upon previous researc...| Journal of Mass Violence Research
As conspiracy theories flourish, context is missing on Trump's injury, the shooter's motive, and more.| Mother Jones
The full data set from our in-depth investigation into mass shootings.| Mother Jones
The post Anders Behring Breivik – Norwegian Spree Killer Revisited appeared first on iPredator - Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking, Cybercriminal Minds.| iPredator – Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking, Cybercriminal Minds